A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.
And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.
Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.
Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.
As long as you are proud, you cannot know God.
Pride is a sin that can readily be seen in others but is rarely admitted in ourselves.
There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. 'Good pride' represents our dignity and self-respect. 'Bad pride' is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of conceit and arrogance.
I would always rather be happy than dignified.
According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride.
Pride is ugly. It says 'If you succeed I am a failure.'
In the scriptures there is no such thing as righteous pride. It is always considered as a sin.
Through pride the devil became the devil. Pride leads to every vice, it's the complete anti-God state of mind.
Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.
It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.
Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the sin, but the heart, or core, is still missing. The central feature of pride is enmity - enmity toward God and enmity toward our fellowmen.
Essentially, pride is a 'my will' rather than 'thy will' approach to life.
We can choose to humble ourselves by confessing and forsaking our sins and being born of God.
The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.
I do think it imperative that you recover from fear of rejection. Forgive me, but that is the sin of pride, and you must avoid that particular manifestation of the sin if you are to reach the goal . . . you hope for.
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.
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