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  • There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. 'Good pride' represents our dignity and self-respect. 'Bad pride' is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of conceit and arrogance.

  • There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.

    Walter Lippmann (1955). “Essays in the Public Philosophy”, p.85, Transaction Publishers
  • Pride is a sin that can readily be seen in others but is rarely admitted in ourselves.

  • 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.

    Pride   Ruins   Sin  
    James Joyce (2005). “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”, p.134, Collector's Library
  • And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.

    Humility   Pride   Devil  
    'The Devil's Thoughts' (1799)
  • Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.

    Humility   Pride   Men  
    C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.164, Simon and Schuster
  • A person who is obsessed with Jesus knows that the sin of pride is always a battle. Obsessed people know that you can never be "humble enough," and so they seek to make themselves less known and Christ more known (Mt 5:16).

    Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.97, David C Cook
  • No one wrote better about the sin of pride, the corruption of power and the redemption of love. I will miss you, Gabriel García Márquez.

    Pride   Missing   Gabriel  
  • People who parade their holiness are operating dangerously close to the sin of pride.

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

    C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.164, Simon and Schuster
  • Part of the sin of Pride is a subtle but deep racism.

    Pride   Racism   Sin  
    K. P. Yohannan (2014). “Revolution in World Missions: One Man's Journey to Change a Generation”, p.46, Gospel For Asia Books
  • Essentially, pride is a 'my will' rather than 'thy will' approach to life.

  • One of the things capitalism does is, it does enhance and exacerbate the sin of pride, making yourself, the material world the center of your universe, instead of God's will.

    Pride   Doe   World  
    "Shields and Brooks on the pope’s critique of capitalism, Thanksgiving gratitude". "PBS NewsHour" with Hari Sreenivasan, www.pbs.org. November 29, 2013.
  • 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.

    God   Wisdom   Humility  
    C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.114, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the sin, but the heart, or core, is still missing. The central feature of pride is enmity - enmity toward God and enmity toward our fellowmen.

    Heart   Pride   Thinking  
  • 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.

    Pride   Men   Competition  
    C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.164, Simon and Schuster
  • Before we become too arrogant with the most deadly of the seven deadly sins, the sin of pride, let us remember that the two great wars of this century, wars which cost twenty million dead, were fought between Christian nations praying to the same God.

    Christian   War   Pride  
    Nixon, Richard M. (1974). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1972”, p.126, Best Books on
  • It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.

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

    Lying   Father   Pride  
  • As long as you are proud, you cannot know God.

    C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.114, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • We modern egalitarians are tempted to the primal sin of pride in the opposite way from the ancients. The old, aristocratic form of pride was the desire to be better than others. The new, democratic form is the desire not to have anyone better than yourself. It is just as spiritually deadly and does not even carry with it the false pleasure of gloating superiority.

    Peter Kreeft (1990). “Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Heaven-- But Never Dreamed of Asking”, p.29, Ignatius Press
  • Pride is ugly. It says 'If you succeed I am a failure.'

    Pride   Ugly   Succeed  
  • 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.

    Life   Hurt   Pride  
  • I do think it imperative that you recover from fear of rejection. Forgive me, but that is the sin of pride, and you must avoid that particular manifestation of the sin if you are to reach the goal . . . you hope for.

  • 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.

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

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

    Pride   Mind   Devil  
  • Every man hath the right to doubt his task, and to forsake it from time to time; but what he must not do is forget it. Whoever doubteth not himself is unworthy -for in his unquestioning belief in his ability, he commiteth the sin of pride. Blessed are they who go through moments of indecision.

  • 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.

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

    Pride   Scripture   Sin  
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