Browsing Topic Best Sin Of Pride Quotes

I would always rather be happy than dignified.

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.

It’s a big mistake to think that your own cause, or your own country, or your own side has God in its corner. For one thing, it commits the sin of pride.

Through pride the devil became the devil. Pride leads to every vice, it’s the complete anti-God state of mind.

According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride.

As long as you are proud, you cannot know God.

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.

We can choose to humble ourselves by confessing and forsaking our sins and being born of God.

Pride is ugly. It says ‘If you succeed I am a failure.’

Pride is a sin that can readily be seen in others but is rarely admitted in ourselves.

Essentially, pride is a ‘my will’ rather than ‘thy will’ approach to life.

In the scriptures there is no such thing as righteous pride. It is always considered as a sin.

It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.

Theologians consider that it was the sin of pride, the sinful thought conceived in an instant: non serviam: I will not serve. That instant was his [Lucifer’s] ruin.

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.

Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.

Part of the sin of Pride is a subtle but deep racism.

People who parade their holiness are operating dangerously close to the sin of pride.

The sin of pride is the sin of sins; in which all subsequent sins are included, as in their germ; they are but the unfolding of this one.