Jesus Pride Quotes

#1. Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

Blaise Pascal

#2. At this moment God might not necessarily be a necessity, but know that His absence will of necessity eventually result in His necessity.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#3. At the deepest level, pride is the choice to exclude both God and other people from their rightful place in our hearts. Jesus said the essence of the spiritual life is to love God and to love people. Pride destroys our capacity to love.

John Ortberg

#4. If, in his pride, he considers God as a challenge, he will deny Him; and if God becomes man and therefore makes Himself vulnerable, he will crucify Him.

Fulton J. Sheen

#5. Knowlege of God without knowledge of man's wretchedness leads to pride. Knowledge of man's wretchedness without knowledge of God leads to despair. Knowledge of Jesus Christ is the middle course, because by it we discover both God and our wretched state.

Blaise Pascal

#6. I never try to defend religion. Religion has spawned wars. Many so-called religious people have been characterized by prejudice, pride, and bickering ... I would call you to a simple faith in Jesus, who said, Love your neighbor as yourself.

Billy Graham

#7. Let us watch against unbelief, pride, and self-confidence . If we go forth in our own strength, we shall faint, and utterly fall; but having our hearts and our hopes in heaven, we shall be carried above all difficulties, and be enabled to lay hold of the prize of our high calling in Christ Jesus.

Matthew Henry

#8. When our pride usurps Truth, we walk on the shifting sands of relativism, an ego driven reality.

Alisa Hope Wagner

#9. In Jesus the performance pendulum stops - both the pride of success and the despair of failure are absorbed by grace.

Melissa B. Kruger

#10. The very first step to becoming a follower of Jesus Christ is the humble admission that we need him. Nothing keeps us out of the kingdom of God more surely than our pride and self-sufficiency.

John R.W. Stott

#11. Jesus had a humble heart. If He abides in us, pride will never dominate our lives.

Billy Graham

#12. Pride is associated with failure, not success. We hear a great deal about the inferiority complex, but the superiority complex of pride is seldom spoken of ... The greatest act of humility ... was when Jesus Christ stooped to die on the cross of Calvary.

Billy Graham

#13. Whether through an outwardly prideful life of breaking the rules or an inwardly prideful life of keeping the rules, we are people who have sought to avoid Jesus and run our own lives.

Justin Buzzard

#14. people to ourselves rather than Jesus, and then wonder why power has left the pulpit and why the deep theological treasures of some of the old hymns have degenerated into songs that exalt us above the glory of our Creator. Despite our pretensions, our pride grows

Matt Boswell

#15. Surely no one will consider us lacking in reverence if we say that every one of the "principles of modern salesmanship" on which business men so much pride themselves, are brilliantly exemplified in Jesus' talk and work.

Bruce Barton

#16. Purge me from every sinful blot;
My idols all be cast aside:
Cleanse me from every evil thought,
From all the filth of self and pride.
The hatred of the carnal mind
Out of my flesh at once remove:
Give me a tender heart, resigned,
And pure, and full of faith and love.

John Wesley

#17. Praise is a contradiction of pride. Pride says 'looks at me,' but praise longs for people to see Jesus.

Matt Redman

#18. Jesus reserved his hardest words for the hidden sins of hypocrisy, pride, greed and legalism.

Philip Yancey

#19. Jesus (pbuh) said, "It is of no use to you to come to know what you did not know, as long as you do not act in accordance with what you already know. Too much knowledge only increases pride if you do not act in accordance with it

Tarif Khalidi

#20. That's how you're defining right and wrong? By what makes me happy?"
Pride lit his face as he nodded.
Oh Jesus. "Walker, you can't do that."
"Why not?"
"Because I shouldn't be the center of your life!"
His voice was gentle, a little confused. "But you are.

Rowan McBride

#21. The devil will use fear, pride,jealousy, time wasters, hurt, thoughts, disappointments to get us to turn our eyes away from Jesus. Don't give him a moment in your life.

Amanda Penland

#22. 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

#23. Jesus is taking an ax to our pride when He tells us the truth about our emptiness apart from Him.

Bill Mills

#24. When everything comes from Jesus, it is spiritual insanity to have any form of pride.

Derwin L. Gray

#25. Wherever there is any element of pride or of conceit, Jesus cannot expound a thing. He will take us through the disappointment of a wounded pride of intellect, through disappointment of heart. He will reveal inordinate affections-thin gs over which we never thought He would have to get us alone.

Oswald Chambers

#26. Pride is often used as a way to protect our hearts and to hide the truth. Pride causes us to shut down and build walls.

Heather Bixler

#27. 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 [Matthew 5:16].

Francis Chan

#28. Knowing God without knowing our own wretchedness makes for pride.
Knowing our own wretchedness without knowing God makes for despair.
Knowing Jesus Christ strikes the balance because he shows us both God and our own wretchedness.

Blaise Pascal

#29. God didn't send His only Son to die on the cross so that we can hide behind our guilt, shame, and pride.

Heather Bixler

#30. Hold fast to Jesus and remember: This breaking of you will be the making of you. A new you. A stronger you. Strengthened not with the pride of perfection but with the sweet grace of one who knows an intimate closeness with her Lord.

Lysa TerKeurst

#31. The gospel destroys pride because it tells us we are so lost that Jesus had to die for us.

Timothy Keller

#32. As in Jesus' time, so today, tyranny and pride need to be whipped out of the temple, and humility and divine Science to be welcomed in.

Mary Baker Eddy

#33. The knowledge of God without that of man's misery causes pride. The knowledge of man's misery without that of God causes despair. The knowledge of Jesus Christ is the middle course, because in Him we find both God and our misery.

Blaise Pascal

#34. God wants you to be truthful and humble to yourself and others. He made you good and industrious, but you can't benefit from it if you always stumble on pride.

Stevan V. Nikolic

#35. Shall it be a religion or shall it be Christ? Shall it be churchianity or shall it be Jesus Christ? Shall it be pride or shall it be humility in Jesus Christ?

Aiden Wilson Tozer