Peter Kreeft Quotes About Pride

Quotes about: Pride

• We modern egalitarians are tempted to the primal sin of pride in the opposite way from the ancients. The old, aristocratic form of pride was the desire to be better than others. The new, democratic form is the desire not to have anyone better than yourself. It is just as spiritually deadly and does not even carry with it the false pleasure of gloating superiority.

  Peter Kreeft

  Pride, Opposites, Desire

  Peter Kreeft (1990). “Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Heaven-- But Never Dreamed of Asking”, p.29, Ignatius Press

• Pride looks down, and no one can see God but by looking up.

  Peter Kreeft

  Pride, Looks, Down And

  Peter Kreeft (2016). “Back to Virtue: Traditional Moral Wisdom for Modern Moral Confusion”, p.64, Ignatius Press

• Humility is the marriage bond of Heaven. Pride is the frigidity of Hell.

  Peter Kreeft

  Humility, Pride, Heaven

  Peter Kreeft (2016). “Back to Virtue: Traditional Moral Wisdom for Modern Moral Confusion”, p.64, Ignatius Press

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