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Pride loves to climb up, not as Zacchaeus
William Gurnall
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A sheep may fall into a ditch, but it is the swine that wallows in it.
4 Types of Pride: first is when someone attributes to himself the good which he has; the second, when he believes that the good is given by God, and yet for his own merits; the third, when he boasts that he has what he does not have; the fourth, when he has contempt for all others and wishes to seem unique.Moralia, bk 2, c6, n13
The Christian must always be at war. If he has peace with sin, he is at war with God.
He who is his own teacher, is sure to have a fool for his master!
If you allow your love of creature comforts — or even your pleasure in family and loved ones — to outrun your love for the Lord, you cannot be a victorious soldier for Christ.The Christian in Complete Armour, 1:72
God will have nothing to do with proud persons, he will never dwell with them, he will never keep house with them.
He that dwells in the highest heavens, will never dwell in a haughty heart.
The layman has a large field in which he may minister to his fellow man, even if he is not called to full time ministry.Christian in Complete Armour 1:300
There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence. Commentary on Luke 24:45
None sink so far into hell as those that come nearest heaven, because they fall from the greatest height.
Pride is the most hidden, secret, and deceitful of all lusts.
Run from pride, for it is a passion more treacherous than any other.
Christian, take special care not to trust in the armour of God, but in the God of the armour.
Pride is the very image of the devil.
Let your hope of Heaven master your fear of death. Why should you be afraid to die, who hope to live by dying!
The lesser we discern pride in ourselves the more it reigns in our hearts.
The sin of pride is so ingrained in us that even when other sins decrease, pride grows.Divine Judgment and Mercy in the Second Plague 154
Temptation is never stronger than when relief seems to dress itself in the very sin that Satan is suggesting.Christian in Complete Armour, 1:84
What lust is so valuable that it is worth burning in hell for?
Christians spend more time fretting about what the minister should do than praying for God's direction in their own lives.The Christian in Complete Armour, 1:292
Pride has its root and strength in a spiritual power, outside of us as well as within us; as needful as it is that we confess and deplore it, it is satanic in origin.Humility
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.
Tis inexpressible, and almost inconceivable, how strong a self-righteous, self-exalting disposition is naturally in man; and what he will not do and suffer, to feed and gratify it.Religious Affections
There is no fault which makes a man more unpopular, and no fault which we are more unconscious of in ourselves. And the more we have it ourselves, the more we dislike it in othersMere Christianity, 91
Unholiness in a preacher's life will either stop his mouth from reproving or the people's ears from receiving.
the more we have it in ourselves, the more we dislike it in others.Mere Christianity (121)
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