Pride

“A man's most glorious actions will at last be found to be but glorious sins, if he hath made himself, and not the glory of God, the end of those actions.”

“Self is the only oil that makes the chariot-wheels of the hypocrite move in all religious concerns.”

“He who is his own teacher, is sure to have a fool for a master!”

“Pride of gifts, robs us of God's blessing in the use of them.”

“Least doers are the greatest boasters.”

“The lesser we discern pride in ourselves, the more it reigns in our hearts.”

“Lack of a due sense of the sinfulness of our best works leads to dreams of self-righteousness and self-justification.”

“Selfishness is the making a man's self his own center, the beginning and end of all he does.”

“Self-love is the greatest enemy to true Christian love, and pride is the fountain of self-love, because it is impossible that, in this life, there should be an exact correspondence between the thoughts and ways of Christians.”

“As soon as the heart is broken, under a sense of sin, pride and self-conceit vanish away, and the more broken-hearted that a person is, the less proud.”

“As there is no mercy, which man's heart will not abuse, so there is no judgment, which it will not proudly scorn.”

“We are apt to burn incense to our own net, to attribute all we have to our own second causes.”

“One of them was over righteous, and the other wicked over much.”

“Charity envieth not.” Envy is the seed of all contention, and self-love brings it forth.”

“Yet further, such is the deceit of a man’s own heart, as a man may suffer much out of the pride of his heart: as a man may serve himself, in serving God, so he may seek himself in denying himself in that which is the cause of God.”

“For they, being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves to the righteousness of God.”

“I am not as other men!" sayest thou; but is this the way to go to God in prayer?”

“The pride of angels and men was but the rising up to a height, or climbing up a steep to the pinnacle of glory, that they might catch the lower fall.”

“They think, 'Blessed are the rich.' The world would count him blessed who could have Midas' wish—that all that he touched might be turned into gold.”

“The Lord shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaks proud things; who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own; who is lord over us?" Sad is the blinding power of sin.”

“Pride, idleness, wantonness, are three worms that usually breed of plenty.”

“That man who makes himself the end of his actions, who makes honor, riches, applause, etc. the end of his actions—he must at last lie down in eternal sorrow, he must dwell in everlasting burnings.”

“I thank thee that my condition is so good, and that I am so far advanced above my neighbour.”

“It is safer to be humble with one talent, than proud with ten; yes, better to be an humble worm, than a proud angel.”

“God always hides saving knowledge from the "wise and prudent." That which we learn by our unaided faculties—puffs up and blinds the mind.”

“To circumscribe God to our time, and to make ourselves lords of time; what is this, but to divest God of his royalty and sovereignty of appointing times?”

“They will glory in their oaths as a genteel accomplishment, and swear, and say they will swear.”

“We are both idols and idol-worshippers, when we think highly of ourselves, for we make ourselves idols.”

“No; dunghill sinners take heaven by violence, while the proud pharisees lose it by their own righteousness.”

“Pride is a sin that will put the soul upon the worst of sins.”

“All they see is their own; and all their own is most excellent.”

“When the spirit in him was wanting, his praise is of men, not of God, and therefore, as the opposition shews, was not approved of by God.”

“The rich in themselves are sent 'empty away;' the humble soul is a rich soul, rich in God; and therefore God regards the lowly and resists the proud.”

“I remember I have read of an old strumpet that had a false Glass continually to look in, and that presented her beautiful unto her self, and she would never look upon any other.”

“The boasting in our selves, in regard of our services or sufferings, makes both us, and all that we do or suffer, to be vile and base in the eyes of God and man.”

“To seek yourself in this world is to be lost; and to be humble is to be exalted.”

“Many entertain a doctrine for the person's sake, rather than a person for the doctrine's sake, and believe a thmg because it comes from a man they esteem, as if his lips were more canonical than Scripture.”

“The lusts of the eye, are riches; so called, because their greatest serviceableness is only to make a glittering and dazzling shew.”

“What is the favor of man but a blast, a sunshine-hour, a puff of wind, a great nothing? and who then would spend an hour's time to secure it?”

“Instead of being as gods, they became as the beasts that perish.”

“And it is as great pride and greater for any to presume to be head of all churches in Christ’s presence than for a man to sit vice-regent in the presence of the prince.”

“I can assure you, that a blameless conversation hath been a great temptation to a great many to undervalue the grace of God, and the righteousness of Jesus Christ.”

“Men may step up into the throne of God, and there presume to judge others according to their interests and passions: but God will quickly pull them down, and teach them better to know their places.”

“Oh how do men value the favours of a man, and the promises of a man; the seal of a man for such and such a benefice; and how doth it grieve them to have the frowns of flesh and blood, the frowns of greatness!”

“It seems almost as if man would thrust God aside, take the reins of government out of His hands and be to himself a god.”

“With most men, their promotion succeeds their former state—that is, the nobility of their character is left behind, along with their former position.”

“An abscess is not more dangerous in the body than pride in the soul.”

“But sayest thou, I will be righteous in myself that I may have wherewith to commend me to God, when I go to him for mercy?”

“To boast of what we have not is folly; to boast of what we have is sacrilege, and we rob God; this is like a man deeply in debt, who boasts of an estate he has borrowed.”

“It should rather humble us the more than puff us up in pride, in regard that there was nothing in us which might deserve anything at God’s hand, 1 Cor. iv. 7; Eph. ii. 9.”