Spiritual Pride Quotes

• For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.

  C. S. Lewis

  Spiritual, Cancer, Pride

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.115, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Pride takes many forms, but spiritual pride is the most grievous. To become proud of spiritual gifts or leadership position is to forget that all we have is from God, all the position we occupy is God's appointment.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Leadership, Christian, Spiritual

  J. Oswald Sanders (2008). “Spiritual Leadership, Spiritual Discipleship, Spiritual Maturity Set of 3 Sanders books”, p.152, Moody Publishers

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• We must be careful to avoid spiritual elitism. Everything we are and anything we possess as believers in Christ is a gift of grace. Pure hearts before God must be cleansed from any hint of spiritual pride.

  Beth Moore

  Spiritual, Heart, Pride

  Beth Moore (2010). “Paul: 90 Days on His Journey of Faith”, p.63, B&H Publishing Group

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• The deceitfulness of the heart of man appears in no one thing so much as this of spiritual pride and self-righteousness. The subtlety of Satan appears in its height, in his managing persons with respect to this sin. And perhaps one reason may be that here he has most experience; he knows the way of its coming in; he is acquainted with the secret springs of it: it was his own sin. Experience gives vast advantage in leading souls, either in good or evil.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Spiritual, Spring, Heart

  Jonathan Edwards (1821). “A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections: In Three Parts ...”, p.270

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• Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.

  Samuel Richardson

  Spiritual, Pride, Arrogant

  Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.73

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• Spiritual pride is the worst of all pride, if it is not the worst snare of the devil. The heart is peculiarly deceitful on just this one thing.

  Ichabod Spencer

  Spiritual, Heart, Pride

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• This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though perhaps adorned with greater gifts, and endowments.

  Johann Arndt

  Spiritual, Pride, Truth Is

  Johann Arndt (1868). “True Christianity: A Treatise on Sincere Repentance, True Faith, the Holy Walk of the True Christian, Etc”, p.187

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• A concern for doctrinal purity should always be based on love of the Lord, not a desire to express spiritual pride.

  Max Anders

  Spiritual, Pride, Desire

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• For a long time—always, in fact—I have known that life here on earth is not what I needed and that I wasn’t able to deal with it; for this reason and for this reason alone, I have acquired a touch of spiritual pride, so that my existence seems to me the degradation and the erosion of a psalm.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Spiritual, Pride, Erosion

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

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• It was under a solemn consciousness of the dangers from ecclesiastical ambition, the bigotry of spiritual pride, and the intolerance of sects... that is was deemed advisable to exclude from the national government all power to act upon the subject.

  Joseph Story

  Spiritual, Ambition, Pride

  Joseph Story (1833). “Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States, Before the Adoption of the Constitution”, p.702

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• Aside from higher considerations, charity often operates as a vastly wise and prudent principle-a great safeguard to its possessor. Men have committed murder for jealousy's sake, and anger's sake, and hatred's sake, and selfishness' sake, and spiritual pride's sake; but no man that ever I heard of, ever committed a diabolical murder for sweet charity's sake. Mere self-interest, then, if no better motive can be enlisted, should, especially with high-tempered men, prompt all beings to charity and philanthropy.

  Herman Melville

  Wise, Spiritual, Sweet

  Herman Melville (1995). “Bartleby, the Scrivener: a Story of Wall-Street”, p.29, Lulu.com

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