Sin Of Pride Quotes

• There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. 'Good pride' represents our dignity and self-respect. 'Bad pride' is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of conceit and arrogance.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Self Esteem, Pride

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• Through pride the devil became the devil. Pride leads to every vice, it's the complete anti-God state of mind.

  C. S. Lewis

  Pride, Mind, Devil

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• Pride is a sin that can readily be seen in others but is rarely admitted in ourselves.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Pride, Sin

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• A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.

  C. S. Lewis

  God, Wisdom, Humility

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.114, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.

  John Ruskin

  Pride, Someone You Love, Useless

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• Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Lying, Father, Pride

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• Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.

  C. S. Lewis

  Humility, Pride, Men

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.164, Simon and Schuster

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• Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.

  C. S. Lewis

  Pride, Men, Competition

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.164, Simon and Schuster

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• As long as you are proud, you cannot know God.

  C. S. Lewis

  Humility, Long, Proud

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.114, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Essentially, pride is a 'my will' rather than 'thy will' approach to life.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Pride, Approach

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• Pride is ugly. It says 'If you succeed I am a failure.'

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Pride, Ugly, Succeed

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• And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Humility, Pride, Devil

  'The Devil's Thoughts' (1799)

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• Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the sin, but the heart, or core, is still missing. The central feature of pride is enmity - enmity toward God and enmity toward our fellowmen.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Heart, Pride, Thinking

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• The sin of pride is the sin of sins; in which all subsequent sins are included, as in their germ; they are but the unfolding of this one.

  Richard Chenevix Trench

  Pride, Germs, Sin

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• According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Teacher, Pride

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.164, Simon and Schuster

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• I would always rather be happy than dignified.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Love, Inspiring, Women

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.333, Penguin

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• A person who is obsessed with Jesus knows that the sin of pride is always a battle. Obsessed people know that you can never be "humble enough," and so they seek to make themselves less known and Christ more known (Mt 5:16).

  Francis Chan

  Christian, Jesus, Humble

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.97, David C Cook

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• The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.

  Iris Murdoch

  Life, Hurt, Pride

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• In the scriptures there is no such thing as righteous pride. It is always considered as a sin.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Pride, Scripture, Sin

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• People who parade their holiness are operating dangerously close to the sin of pride.

  Mardy Grothe

  Pride, People, Holiness

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• I do think it imperative that you recover from fear of rejection. Forgive me, but that is the sin of pride, and you must avoid that particular manifestation of the sin if you are to reach the goal . . . you hope for.

  John Farrar

  Humility, Pride, Thinking

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• We can choose to humble ourselves by confessing and forsaking our sins and being born of God.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Humble, Born, Pride And Humility

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• Theologians consider that it was the sin of pride, the sinful thought conceived in an instant: non serviam: I will not serve. That instant was his [Lucifer's] ruin.

  James Joyce

  Pride, Ruins, Sin

  James Joyce (2005). “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”, p.134, Collector's Library

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• We modern egalitarians are tempted to the primal sin of pride in the opposite way from the ancients. The old, aristocratic form of pride was the desire to be better than others. The new, democratic form is the desire not to have anyone better than yourself. It is just as spiritually deadly and does not even carry with it the false pleasure of gloating superiority.

  Peter Kreeft

  Pride, Opposites, Desire

  Peter Kreeft (1990). “Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Heaven-- But Never Dreamed of Asking”, p.29, Ignatius Press

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• No one wrote better about the sin of pride, the corruption of power and the redemption of love. I will miss you, Gabriel García Márquez.

  Laila Lalami

  Pride, Missing, Gabriel

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