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
God | The Gospel | Humility | Pride | Sin
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
– Augustine
Angels | Pride | Humility
Sin came through the pride of Lucifer and salvation came through the humility of Jesus.
– Zac Poonen
Sin | Pride | Humility
Pride is a barrier to all spiritual progress.
– Harry Ironside
Pride
The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.
– G.K. Chesterton
Pride
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
Pride
God is not proud. He will have us even though we have shown that we prefer everything else to Him.
– C.S. Lewis
God | Pride
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
Pride
None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.
– Charles Spurgeon
Pride | Judging
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
Praise | Pride | Criticism
The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.
– Blaise Pascal
Pride
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
Humility | Pride
Self-righteousness is the devil’s masterpiece to make us think well of ourselves.
– Thomas Adams
Pride | Satan | Self-righteousness
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
Pride
Pride, perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.
– Thomas Fuller
Pride | Hypocrisy
A proud faith is as much a contradiction as a humble devil.
– Stephen Charnock
Pride | Faith
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
Politics | Pride | Men
A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.
– Harry Emerson Fosdick
Pride
Pride had rather go out of the way than go behind.
– Thomas Fuller
Pride
Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Pride | Humility | Thankfulness
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
Envy | Pride | Excellence
The essence of Gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.
– Tim Keller
Humility | Pride
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
Pride
Pride builds walls between people, humility builds bridges.
– Rick Warren
Pride | Humility
The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
– William Cowper
Pride
Be not proud of race, face, place, or grace.
– Charles Spurgeon
Pride
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
Pride | Envy | Anger
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
Envy | Pride
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
Satan | Pride | Attitude
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
Pride
The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.
– Martin Luther
Finances | Pride
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
Pride | Humility
Vanity is but the surface.
– Blaise Pascal
Pride
Be not proud of race, face, place, or grace.
– Samuel Rutherford
Pride
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
Pride
Poverty and affliction take away the fuel that feeds pride.
– Richard Sibbes
Affliction | Pride
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
Pride | Ignorance
In all unbelief there are these two things: a good opinion of one’s self, and a bad opinion of God.
– Horatius Bonar
Pride | Unbelief
Pride may be set down as “the sin” of human nature.
– Charles Spurgeon
Pride
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
Wealth | Pride
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
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.
– C.S. Lewis
Satan | Pride
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
Pride
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
Pride
The moment good taste knows itself, some of its goodness is lost.
– C.S. Lewis
Pride
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.
– C.S. Lewis
Pride
How many covet that they may boast? How many desire more glory for their flesh?
– Watchman Nee
Pride | Envy | Boasting
The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.
– G.K. Chesterton
Pride
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.
– Charles Spurgeon
Pride | Discipline
It is this unquiet self-love that renders us so sensitive. The sick man, who sleeps ill, thinks the night long. We exaggerate, from cowardice, all the evils which we encounter; they are great, but our sensibility increases them.
– Francois Fenelon
Pride | Illness | Self-love
To attempt to pay for salvation with church membership, prayers, or good deeds is an insult to Christ, who paid the full price–and is a rejection of the gift of God’s grace.
– Dave Hunt
Salvation | Pride
The chief occupational hazard of leadership is pride.
– John Stott
Leadership | Pride
If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.
– G.K. Chesterton
Pride | Preaching
We are looking for our own virtue, our own piety, our own goodness, and so live on and in our own poverty and weakness – today pleased and comforted with the seeming firmness and strength of our own pious tempers and fancying ourselves to be somewhat. Tomorrow, fallen into our own mire, we are dejected, but not humbled; we grieve, but it is only the grief of pride at the seeing our perfection not to be such as we had vainly imagined. And thus it will be, till the whole turn of our minds be so changed that we as fully see and know our inability to have any goodness of our own as to have a life of our own.
– William Law
Pride | Grief | Virtue
This [pride] is the strong castle that we all keep garrisoned against heaven in every one of our hearts, which God continually layeth siege unto.
– Assorted Authors
Pride
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.
– Charles Spurgeon
Pride
A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Pride
We hear much of a decent pride, a becoming pride, a noble pride, a laudable pride. Can that be decent, of which we ought to be ashamed? Can that be becoming, of which God has set forth the deformity? Can that be noble which God resists and is determined to abase? Can that be laudable, which God calls abominable? Providence is a greater mystery than revelation. The state of the world is more humiliating to our reason than the doctrines of the Gospel. A reflecting Christian sees more to excite his astonishment, and to exercise his faith, in the state of things between Temple Bar and St. Paul’s, than in what he reads from Genesis to Revelations.
– Richard Cecil
Pride | The Gospel | Providence
He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.
– Thomas Fuller
Pride
And what else is the cause of all transgression, but that man’s ignorant pride will have his will preferred to the will of God.
– William Cowper
Pride
Pride comes from not knowing yourself and the world. The older you grow, and the more you see, the less reason you will find for being proud. Ignorance and inexperience are the pedestal of pride; once the pedestal is removed – pride will soon come down.
– J. C. Ryle
Pride | Ignorance
Think not that all is well within when all is well without, or that thy being pleased is a sign that God is pleased.
– Assorted Authors
Pride
Pride springs from desire. Man aspires to obtain a place for himself that he may feel honored before men. He loves to hear praising voices and considers them just and true. He also attempts to elevate himself in his work, whether in preaching or in writing, for his secret self motive goads him on. In a word, this one has not yet died to his desire of vainglory. He is still seeking what he desires and what can inflate him.
– Watchman Nee
Pride
Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.
– Jeremy Taylor
Pride | Enemies
Pride thrust Nebuchadnezzar out of men’s society, Saul out of his kingdom, Adam out of paradise, Haman out of court, and Lucifer out of heaven.
– Thomas Adams
Pride
It is a proud spirit that will not let grace be exalted, but puts self, in the throne of Christ, and his righteousness. It is a filthy and abominable spirit, and pollutes the man more and more: and God abhors it, as that which contradicts his most glorious plot.
– Ralph Erskine
Pride
Pride will spit in pride’s face.
– Thomas Fuller
Pride
That venomous worm of all goodness, vain glory.
– Robert Leighton
Pride
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.
– C.S. Lewis
Pride | Self-righteousness
There is no greater punishment than that of being abandoned to one’s self.
– Assorted Authors
Pride
You can have no greater sign of confirmed pride than when you think you are humble enough.
– William Law
Pride | Humility
According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride.
– C.S. Lewis
Pride | Teachers
Once more, Never think that you can live to God by your own power or strength; but always look to and rely on him for assistance, yea, for all strength and grace.
– David Brainerd
Grace | Power | Pride
It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Pride | Achievement
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
Pride
Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.
– C.S. Lewis
Pride
Despondency is not a state of humility. On the contrary, it is the vexation and despair of a cowardly pride; nothing is worse. Whether we stumble, or whether we fall, we must only think of rising again and going on in our course.
– Francois Fenelon
Pride
Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.
– Fyodor Dostoevsky
Pride | Modesty
And yet we are very apt to be full of ourselves, instead of Him that made what we so much value, and but for whom we can have no reason to value ourselves.
– William Penn
Pride
Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Pride | Gratitude
Conceit not so high an opinion of any one as to be bashful and impotent in their presence.
– Thomas Fuller
Pride
Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.
– Thomas Merton
Pride | Humility
The claim to equality, outside the strictly political field, is made only by those who feel themselves to be in some way inferior.
– C.S. Lewis
Pride
The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
– Francis Bacon
Angels | Pride | Knowledge
God can never entrust His Kingdom to anyone who has not been broken of pride, for pride is the armour of darkness itself.
– Francis Frangipane
Pride
No one enjoys feeling weak, whether it is emotionally, spiritually or physically. There is something within the human spirit that wants to resist the thought of weakness. Many times this is nothing more than our human pride at work. Just as weakness carries a great potential for strength, pride carries an equally great potential for defeat.
– Charles Stanley
Pride | Weakness | Strength
Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep up dignity. In gluttony there must be eating, in drunkenness there must be drinking; ’tis not the eating, and ’tis not the drinking that must be blamed, but the excess. So in pride.
– John Selden
Pride
It could be a sign of pride in your life if a word of reproof or admonition is not able to be received with the same grace, whether it be given by the poorest of saints or the most educated person.
– John Bunyan
Pride
Do not be taken in or flattered by your own success or fame. Take not only as to whether or not the old creation, including everything which comes by birth, has gone through the cross.
– Watchman Nee
Pride | The Cross