C. J. Mahaney Quotes About Pride

Quotes about: Pride

• Pride takes innumerable forms but has only one end: self-glorification. That’s the motive and ultimate purpose of pride—to rob God of legitimate glory and to pursue self-glorification, contending for supremacy with Him. The proud person seeks to glorify himself and not God, thereby attempting in effect to deprive God of something only He is worthy to receive

  C. J. Mahaney

  Pride, Self, Proud Person

  C.J. Mahaney (2008). “Humility: True Greatness”, p.22, Multnomah

• But the very act of pausing in a busy day to pray is an act of weakening pride in my life, acknowledging that I am a dependent creature. I am not self sufficient.

  C. J. Mahaney

  Pride, Self, Pausing

• Encourage others each and every day-nothing's more important than our words. Did you know that, on average, each of us speaks about twenty-five thousand words daily? My last book didn't have that many words. A lot of language is flowing out of our mouths every day and having an impact on those around us. But how much of that flow is fulfilling God's intended purpose for our speech? How much of it reflects pride, rather than a gospel-motivated humility?

  C. J. Mahaney

  Faith, Christian, Book

  C.J. Mahaney (2008). “Humility: True Greatness”, p.57, Multnomah

• Pride is when sinful human beings aspire to the status and position of God and refuse to acknowledge their dependence upon Him.

  C. J. Mahaney

  Pride, Acknowledge, Refuse

  C.J. Mahaney (2008). “Humility: True Greatness”, p.21, Multnomah

• We cannot free ourselves from pride and selfish ambition; a divine rescue is absolutely necessary.

  C. J. Mahaney

  Selfish, Ambition, Pride

  C.J. Mahaney (2008). “Humility: True Greatness”, p.31, Multnomah

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