Inspirational Quotes on Pride

“It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels. ”

“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?”

“The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.”

“Vanity is but the surface.”

“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.”

“The presence of the flesh is not, however, an excuse for walking in it. We are taught that "our old man is crucified with Christ"; that, in that sense, we "are dead," and we are called upon to make this a constant experience by mortifying ("making dead") our members which are upon the earth.”

“God is not proud. He will have us even though we have shown that we prefer everything else to Him.”

“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.”

“The claim to equality, outside the strictly political field, is made only by those who feel themselves to be in some way inferior.”

“The moment good taste knows itself, some of its goodness is lost.”

“The natural life in each of us is something self-centred, something that wants to be petted and admired, to take advantage of other lives, to exploit the whole universe.”

“Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God: the proud, the avaricious, the self-righteous, are in that danger.”

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

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

“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.”

“Pride may be set down as "the sin" of human nature.”

“None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.”

“Be not proud of race, face, place, or grace.”

“No matter how dear you are to God, if pride is harbored in your spirit, He will whip it out of you. They that go up in their own estimation must come down again by His discipline.”

“There is nothing into which the heart of man so easily falls as pride, and yet there is no more vice which is more frequently, more emphatically, and more eloquently condemned in Scripture. Pride is a thing which should be unnatural to us, for we have nothing to be proud of. In almost every other sin, we gather us ashes when the fire is gone. But here, what is left? The covetous man has his shining gold, but what does the proud man have? He has less than he would have had without pride, and is no gainer whatever. Pride wins no crown.”