Quotes About Sinful Pride

#1. We exalt our calling, not to gain glory among men, or money, or satisfaction, or favor, but because people need to be assured that the words we speak are the words of God. This is no sinful pride. It is holy pride.

Martin Luther

#2. My pride and immaturity caused me to make things more of a struggle than they had to be. I can always blame others or circumstances, but the truth was that my own sinful pride led to more stress than anything else.

Francis Chan

#3. I myself was so often hell-bound from my sinful pride that I was sinfully proud of it. Mama

Tabitha King

#4. The Cross sanctifies the ego trip. For the Cross protected our Lord's perfect self-esteem from turning into sinful pride.

Robert H. Schuller

#5. Money was evil, beauty vain, and both were transitory. Ambition was pride, desire for gain was avarice, desire of the flesh was lust, desire for honor, even for knowledge and beauty, was vainglory. Insofar as these diverted man from seeking the life of the spirit, they were sinful.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#6. 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

#7. Every page of a great novel should be crafted like a beautiful melody, to linger on long after the music stops playing.

Johnny Flora

#8. That's the girl ... that's the girl
" Annabeth punched him in the nose and knocked him flat. "And you," she told him, "lay off my friend.

Rick Riordan

#9. 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.

James Joyce

#10. In some ways, I think it's the closest that we come to the truth - is in the form of fiction.

Laila Lalami

#11. The Church no longer contends that knowledge is in itself sinful, though it did so in its palmy days; but the acquisition of knowledge, even though not sinful, is dangerous, since it may lead to pride of intellect, and hence to a questioning of the Christian dogma.

Bertrand Russell

#12. The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful ... or fun for that matter.

Dave Mustaine

#13. Random Acts of Kindness [10w]
Performing random acts of kindness invites random acts of imitation.

Beryl Dov

#14. This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.

Walter Lang

#15. Pride is when sinful human beings aspire to the status and position of God and refuse to acknowledge their dependence upon Him.

C.J. Mahaney

#16. Once you've got a big feminist and political justification for talking about how you went round to Benedict Cumberbatch's house and did period all over his sofa, then there's no reason not to tell that anecdote in the middle of a dinner party.

Caitlin Moran

#17. A company needs to have good business reflexes, to be able to marshal its forces in a crisis or in response to any unplanned event.

Bill Gates

#18. Pride is never sinful when it is Justice.

Barbara Chase-Riboud

#19. You weak-willed, jealous sack of vampire spit.

Kim Harrison