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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.
Pride04 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, n13Pride0Moralia, bk 2, c6, n13
A sheep may fall into a ditch, but it is the swine that wallows in it.
Sin0Pride 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.
HumilityPride0Humility
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.
Pride0He who is his own teacher, is sure to have a fool for his master!
Pride, Self-Reliance0The Christian must always be at war. If he has peace with sin, he is at war with God.
Sin0Temptation is never stronger than when relief seems to dress itself in the very sin that Satan is suggesting.
Christian in Complete Armour, 1:84Temptation, Sin0Christian in Complete Armour, 1:84
What lust is so valuable that it is worth burning in hell for?
Lust, Hell0If 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, 1:72Worldliness, Comfort0The Christian in Complete Armour, 1:72
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 1:300Lay Ministry0Christian in Complete Armour 1:300
There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.
Commentary on Luke 24:45Pride0Commentary on Luke 24:45
The Christian is not to pray for an immunity from all temporal sufferings. There is no foundation
for such a prayer in the promise, and what God thinks not fit to promise, we must not be bold to ask.
God had one Son without sin, but none in this life without suffering.
Suffering0The Christian's armor will rust, except it be furbished with the oil of prayer. What the key is to the watch, prayer is to our graces; it winds them up and sets them going.
Spiritual Warfare0Some commands of God cannot be obeyed without much self-denial because they cross us in that which our own wills are carried forth very strongly to desire, so that we must deny our will before we can do the will of God. Now a temptation comes very forcibly when it runs with the tide of our own wills.
Self-Denial0The testimony of the church is highly to be reverenced because to it are these oracles of God delivered to be kept as a sacred deposit; yea, it is called "the pillar and ground of the truth" (1 Tim. 3:15) and the candlestick (Rev. 1:12) from whence the light of the Scriptures shines forth into the world. But who will say that the proclamation of a prince hath its authenticity from the pillar it hangs on in the market cross or that the candle hath its light from the candlestick! The office of the church is ministerial, to publish and make known the word of God; but not magisterial and absolute to make it Scripture or unmake it, as she is pleased to allow or deny.
Scripture0The haft of Satan's hatchet with which he lies chopping at the root of the Christian's comfort is commonly made of the Christian's wood.
Satan0The devil is a great student in divinity and makes no other use of his Scripture knowledge than may serve his turn by sophistry to do the Christian a mischief, either by drawing him into sin or into despair for sinning, like some wrangling barrister who gets what skill he can in the law merely to make him the more able to put honest men to trouble by his vexatious suit.
Satan, Devil0The Christian wrestles not with his naked corruptions, but with Satan in them. Were there no devil, yet we should have our hands full in resisting the corruptions of our own hearts, but the access of this enemy makes the battle more terrible because he heads them, who is a captain so skillful and experienced. Our sin is the engine, Satan is the engineer; lust the bait, Satan the angler. When a soul is enticed by his own lusts, he is said to be tempted (James 1:14) because both Satan and our own lusts concur to the completing the sin.
Satan, Devil0Many have yielded to go a mile with Satan that never intended to go two, but when once on the way have been allured further and further, till at last they know not how to leave his company.
Satan, Devil0In handling this point of Satan's subtlety, we shall consider him in his two main designs and therein show you his wiles and policies. His first main design is to draw into sin. The second is to accuse, vex, and trouble the saint for sin.
Satan, Devil0Pride is intolerable to pride.
Pride0Poverty and pride are most unsuitable. It was one of Solomon's odd sights to see "servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth" (Eccl. 10:7). A poor proud man is a prodigy and wonder of pride. He has less temptation to be proud; he has more reason to be humble.
Pride0There are none so knowing that God cannot blind; none so blind and ignorant whose eyes His Spirit cannot open.
Pride0Pride makes a man incapable of receiving counsel. Nebuchadnezzar's mind is said to be "hardened in pride" (Dan. 5:20). There is no reasoning with a proud man; he castles himself in his own opinion of himself and there stands upon his defense against all arguments that are brought.
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