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• I fear it is sometimes forgotten that God has married together justification and sanctification. They are distinct and different things, beyond question, but one is never found without the other. All justified people are sanctified, and all sanctified people are justified. ... Tell me not of your justification, unless you have also some marks of sanctification. Boast not of Christ's work for you, unless you can show us the Spirit's work in you.

  J. C. Ryle

  People, Temptation, Together

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• Asking why rappers always talk about their stuff is like asking why Milton is forever listing the attributes of heavenly armies. Because boasting is a formal condition of the epic form. And those taught that they deserve nothing rightly enjoy it when they succeed in terms the culture understands.

  Zadie Smith

  Army, Epic, Rapper

  "The House That Hova Built". www.nytimes.com. September 6, 2012.

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• Do you think it is a vain hope that one day man will find joy in noble deeds of light and mercy, rather than in the coarse pleasures he indulges in today -- gluttony, fornication, ostentation, boasting, and envious vying with his neighbor? I am certain this is not a vain hope and that the day will come soon.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Thinking, Light

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.545, Bantam Classics

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• I choose goodness... I will go without a dollar before I take a dishonest one. I will be overlooked before I will boast. I will confess before I will accuse. I choose goodness.

  Max Lucado

  Dollars, Goodness, Overlooked

  Max Lucado (2015). “Let the Journey Begin: Finding God's Best for Your Life”, p.73, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Humble, Modesty, Rationality

  "Twelve Virtues of Rationality". Personal Website, yudkowsky.net.

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• It's kind of amazing how popular 'Grey's Anatomy' is. What other show can boast such an annoyingly sincere cast of doctors, sniveling through such perfunctory love triangles?

  Rob Sheffield

  Doctors, Triangles, Love Triangle

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• Fasts and vigils, the study of Scripture, renouncing possessions and everything worldly are not in themselves perfection, as we have said; theyare its tools. For perfection is not to be found in them; it is acquired through them. It is useless, therefore, to boast of our fasting, vigils, poverty, and reading of Scripture when we have not achieved the love of God and our fellow men. Whoever has achieved love has God within himself and his intellect is always with God.

  John Cassian

  Christian, Reading, Men

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• While boasting of our noble deeds we're careful to conceal the ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we have nationalized a system of oppression which, though more refined, is not less cruel than the old system of chattel slavery.

  Horace Greeley

  Historical, Liberty, Bankers

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• Forbear, you things
  That stand upon the pinnacles of state,
  To boast your slippery height! when you do fall,
  You dash yourselves in pieces, ne'er to rise:
  And he that lends you pity, is not wise.

  Ben Jonson

  Wise, Fall, Pieces

  Ben Jonson (1990). “Sejanus His Fall”, p.261, Manchester University Press

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• Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.

  Gertrude Stein

  Listening, Attention, Self-importance

  Gertrude Stein (2016). “GERTRUDE STEIN Ultimate Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Plays, Memoirs & Essays: Three Lives, Tender Buttons, Geography and Plays, Matisse, Picasso and Gertrude Stein, The Making of Americans, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas…”, p.1119, e-artnow

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• Don't boast about your hardheartedness or refusal to shed tears. Instead, pray that God will give you a tender heart which will sympathize with others.

  Lee Roberson

  Heart, Giving, Tears

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• The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him.

  Xunzi

  Believe, Animal, Men

  Xunzi (1999). “Xunzi”

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• When one becomes conscious of his great humility, he has already lost it. When one begins boasting of his humility, it has already become pride-the antithesis of humility.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Humility, Pride, Losing

  Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

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• You are not mature if you have a high esteem of yourself. He who boasts in himself is but a babe in Christ, if indeed he be in Christ at all. Young Christians may think much of themselves. Growing Christians think themselves nothing. Mature Christians know that they are less than nothing. The more holy we are, the more we mourn our infirmities, and the humbler is our estimate of ourselves.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Self Esteem, Thinking

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• You don't impress the officials at NASA with a paper airplane. You don't boast about your crayon sketches in the presence of Picasso. You don't claim equality with Einstein because you can write 'H20.' And you don't boast about your goodness in the presence of the Perfect.

  Max Lucado

  Writing, Airplane, Perfect

  Max Lucado (2008). “Lucado 2in1 (In the Eye of the Storm & Applause of Heaven)”, p.144, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• ...when we abandon visible riches... it is strange goods and not our own that we are leaving. And this is so even if we boast that we acquired them through our own efforts or that they were passed on to us as an inheritance. I say nothing is ours except what is in our hearts, what belongs to our souls, what cannot be taken away by anyone.

  John Cassian

  Christian, Taken, Heart

  John Cassian, Colm Luibhéid (1985). “Conferences”, p.91, Paulist Press

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• Not many people can boast a photo of their grandmother posing for kiddiporn.

  Angela Carter

  Grandmother, People, Posing

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• Life is wasted if we do not grasp the glory of the cross, cherish it for the treasure that it is, and cleave to it as the highest price of every pleasure and the deepest comfort in every pain. What was once foolishness to us—a crucified God—must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world.

  John Piper

  Christian, Easter, Pain

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• England a fortune-telling host, As num'rous as the stars, could boast; Matrons, who toss the cup, and see The grounds of Fate in grounds of tea.

  Charles Churchill

  Stars, Fate, Tea

  Charles Churchill (1766). “Poems ...: In Two Volumes”, p.166

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• I find it difficult to believe that I belong to such an idiotic, rotten species - the species that actually boasts of its freedom of will, heroism on command, senseless violence, and all of the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism.

  Albert Einstein

  Believe, Names, Patriotism

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• As you probably know, some American politicians and American journalists refer to Washington, DC as the "capital of the free world." But it seems to me that Brussels, which boasts 1,000 years of history and which serves as the capital of Belgium, the home of the European Union, and the headquarters for NATO, this city has its own legitimate claim to that title.

  Joe Biden

  Home, Years, Cities

  "Biden Says Brussels Could Be 'Capital of the Free World'", www.foxnews.com. May 25, 2010.

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• He who boasts of a favor bestowed, would like it back again.

  Publilius Syrus

  Favors, Back Again

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• He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.

  Seneca the Younger

  Family, Deeds, Ancestry

  "The Madness of Hercules". Book by Seneca the Younger, circa 54 AD.

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• I simply define glory as the beauty of God unveiled. Glory is the resplendent radiance of His power and His personality. Glory is all of God that makes God God, and shows Him to be worthy of our praise and our boasting and our trust and our hope and our confidence and our joy.

  Sam Storms

  Personality, Joy, Radiance

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• It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible.

  George William Foote

  Spiritual, Religious, Atheist

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