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The Christian Gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me. This leads to deep humility and deep confidence at the same time. It undermines both swaggering and sniveling. I cannot feel superior to anyone, and yet I have nothing to prove to anyone. I do not think more of myself or less of myself. Instead, I think of myself less.
- Tim Keller
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Sin came through the pride of Lucifer and salvation came through the humility of Jesus.
- Zac Poonen
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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
- Augustine
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Self-righteousness is the devil's masterpiece to make us think well of ourselves.
- Thomas Adams
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Pride is a barrier to all spiritual progress.
- Harry Ironside
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The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.
- G.K. Chesterton
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Let us watch against pride in every shape - pride of intellect, pride of wealth, pride in our own goodness, pride in our own deserts. Nothing is so likely to keep a man out of heaven, and prevent him seeing Christ, as pride. So long as we think we are something, we shall never be saved.
- J. C. Ryle
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None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.
- Charles Spurgeon
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You can have no greater sign of confirmed pride than when you think you are humble enough.
- William Law
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Democracy demands that little men should not take big ones too seriously; it dies when it is full of little men who think they are big themselves.
- C.S. Lewis
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God is not proud. He will have us even though we have shown that we prefer everything else to Him.
- C.S. Lewis
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The way we respond to criticism pretty much depends on the way we respond to praise. If praise humbles us, then criticism will build us up. But if praise inflates us, then criticism will crush us; and both responses lead to our defeat.
- Warren Wiersbe
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One of our troubles is we are not willing to humble ourselves. We are not willing to give up our opinions as to how things should be done.
- Mordecai Ham
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Many are convinced, who are not truly enlightened; are afraid of the consequences of sin, though they never saw its evil; have a seeming desire of salvation, which is not founded upon a truly spiritual discovery of their own wretchedness, and the Excellency of Jesus.
- John Newton
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Knowing God without knowing our own wretchedness makes for pride. Knowing our own wretchedness without knowing God makes for despair. Knowing Jesus Christ strikes the balance because He shows us both God and our own wretchedness.
- Blaise Pascal
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The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.
- Blaise Pascal
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Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?
- Blaise Pascal
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There be three usual causes of ingratitude upon a benefit received - envy, pride, and covetousness; envy, looking more at other's benefits than our own; pride, looking more at ourselves than at the benefit; covetousness, looking more at what we would have than at what we have.
- Joseph Hall
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Pride, perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.
- Thomas Fuller
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A proud faith is as much a contradiction as a humble devil.
- Stephen Charnock
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A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
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The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
- Francis Bacon
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In all unbelief there are these two things: a good opinion of one's self, and a bad opinion of God.
- Horatius Bonar
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Pride may be set down as "the sin" of human nature.
- Charles Spurgeon
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Pride had rather go out of the way than go behind.
- Thomas Fuller
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The chief occupational hazard of leadership is pride.
- John Stott
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If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.
- G.K. Chesterton
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In some dispositions there is such an envious kind of pride that they cannot endure that any but themselves should be set forth for excellent; so that when they hear one justly praised, they will either seek to dismount his virtues, or, if they be like a clear light, they will stab him with a "but" of detraction.
- Owen Feltham
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The essence of Gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.
- Tim Keller
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When Jesus entered Jerusalem the people spread their clothes in the way and strewed branches before Him in order to do Him honor. Jesus rode upon an ass, according to the word of the prophet. His feet did not touch the road which was decorated in His honor. It was the ass which trod upon the garments and the branches. But the ass would have been very foolish to have been uplifted on that account; for the road really was not decked in its honor! It would be just as foolish if those who bear Christ to men were to think anything of themselves because of what men do to them for the sake of Jesus.
- Sadhu Sundar Singh
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Pride builds walls between people, humility builds bridges.
- Rick Warren
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
- William Cowper
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Be not proud of race, face, place, or grace.
- Charles Spurgeon
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The proud man hath no God; the envious man hath no neighbor; the angry man hath not himself. What good, then, in being a man, if one has neither himself nor a neighbor nor God.
- Joseph Hall
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Often Satan injects pride into the believer's spirit, evoking in him an attitude of self-importance and of self-conceit. He causes him to esteem himself a very outstanding person, one who is indispensable in God's work. Such a spirit constitutes one of the major reasons for the fall of believers.
- Watchman Nee
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Whatever makes us feel superior to other people, whatever tempts us to convey a sense of superiority that is the gravity of our sinful nature, not grace.
- Phillips Brooks
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The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.
- Martin Luther
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It is an invariable maxim in his kingdom, that whosoever exalts himself, shall be abased; but he that humbles himself, shall be exalted.
- John Newton
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Vanity is but the surface.
- Blaise Pascal
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Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.
- Thomas Merton
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Be not proud of race, face, place, or grace.
- Samuel Rutherford
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The cause why our oppressors prevail oft against us is, because we trust too much in our own wits, and lean too much upon our own inventions opposing subtility to subtility, one evil device to another, matching and maintaining policy by policy, and not committing our cause to God.
- Abraham Wright
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Poverty and affliction take away the fuel that feeds pride.
- Richard Sibbes
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An accession of wealth is a dangerous predicament for a man. At first he is stunned if the accession be sudden, and is very humble and very grateful. Then he begins to speak a little louder, people think him more sensible, and soon he thinks himself so.
- Richard Cecil
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So long as we are full of self we are shocked at the faults of others. Let us think often of our own sin, and we shall be lenient to the sins of others.
- Francois Fenelon
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In the midst of a world of light and love, of song and feast and dance, Lucifer could find nothing to think of more interesting than his own prestige.
- C.S. Lewis
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The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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Whatever makes us feel superior to other people, whatever tempts us to convey a sense of superiority that is the gravity of our sinful nature, not grace.
- Philip Yancey
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The moment good taste knows itself, some of its goodness is lost.
- C.S. Lewis
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