Through the infinite goodness of God, I felt what I spoke; he enabled me to treat on divine truth with uncommon clearness: and yet I was so sensible of my defects in preaching, that I could not be proud of my performance, as at some times; and blessed be the Lord for this mercy.
—David Brainerd
“We pray with boldness, but the boldness which springs from grace, not pride.”
Cast away every thing from you that favours of the lust of the eye and pride of life. Be quick to hear, slow to speak, and let your conversation always be seasoned with grace.
—George Whitefield
Knowing God without knowing our wretchedness leads to pride. Knowing our wretchedness without knowing God leads to despair. Knowing Jesus Christ is the middle course, because in him we find both God and our wretchedness.
—Blaise Pascal
It’s easier to enlighten the world’s stupidest person than to enlighten a proud person.
—Leo Tolstoy
We are rarely proud when we are alone.
—Voltaire
“Grace makes no man proud.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“One of the greatest works of grace in the heart is to humble our pride.”
— Charles Spurgeon
I believe there are many poor and noble families in Florence with whom it would be a charity to become allied, even if there were no dowry, because there would also be no pride.
—Michelangelo
If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
—Socrates
The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.
—Søren Kierkegaard
Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
—Thomas Jefferson
Knowing God without knowing our wretchedness leads to pride. Knowing our wretchedness without knowing God leads to despair. Knowing Jesus Christ is the middle course, because in him we find both God and our wretchedness.
—Blaise Pascal
If I fail it is only because I have too much pride and ambition.
—Julius Caesar
Through the infinite goodness of God, I felt what I spoke; he enabled me to treat on divine truth with uncommon clearness: and yet I was so sensible of my defects in preaching, that I could not be proud of my performance, as at some times; and blessed be the Lord for this mercy.
—David Brainerd
When a man compares himself with others: thus measuring ourselves by ourselves, and comparing ourselves among ourselves, we show our folly and nourish our pride; but if any man will compare his own life with Christ’s, he will find abundant cause at every time to be humbled.
—John Flavel
God will shortly put a blessed end to all your troubles, cares, and watchings. The time is coming when your heart will be as you would have it, when you will be discharged of these cares, fears & sorrows and never cry out, Oh my hard, proud, vain & earthly heart anymore.
—John Flavel
Faith in him will enable you to overcome the world, and cause you even to triumph over the lust of the eye and the pride of life.
—George Whitefield
The lesser we discern pride in ourselves — the more it reigns in our hearts.
William Perkins
I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
—Thomas Edison
“If your proud flesh should rebel, pray it down; for, rest assured that, if you were so selfish as only to wish to do that which would promote your own happiness, it would be the path of wisdom to be obedient to your Lord and Master.”
– Charles Spurgeon
The current generation now sees everything clearly, it marvels at the errors, it laughs at the folly of its ancestors, not seeing that this chronicle is all overscored by divine fire, that every letter of it cries out, that from everywhere the piercing finger is pointed at it, at this current generation; but the current generation laughs and presumptuously, proudly begins a series of new errors, at which their descendants will also laugh afterwards.
—Nikolai Gogol