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God will have nothing to do with proud persons, he will never dwell with them, he will never keep house with them.
He that dwells in the highest heavens, will never dwell in a haughty heart.
Pride04 Types of Pride: first is when someone attributes to himself the good which he has; the second, when he believes that the good is given by God, and yet for his own merits; the third, when he boasts that he has what he does not have; the fourth, when he has contempt for all others and wishes to seem unique.Moralia, bk 2, c6, n13
Moralia, bk 2, c6, n13Pride0Pride has its root and strength in a spiritual power, outside of us as well as within us; as needful as it is that we confess and deplore it, it is satanic in origin.Humility
HumilityPride0A 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.
Pride0The church is not a theological classroom. It is a conversion, confession, repentance, reconciliation, forgiveness and sanctification center, where flawed people place their faith in Christ, gather to know and love him better, and learn to love others as he designed.
Church0There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence. Commentary on Luke 24:45
Commentary on Luke 24:45Pride0Pride is intolerable to pride.
Pride0Poverty and pride are most unsuitable. It was one of Solomon's odd sights to see "servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth" (Eccl. 10:7). A poor proud man is a prodigy and wonder of pride. He has less temptation to be proud; he has more reason to be humble.
Pride0There are none so knowing that God cannot blind; none so blind and ignorant whose eyes His Spirit cannot open.
Pride0Pride makes a man incapable of receiving counsel. Nebuchadnezzar's mind is said to be "hardened in pride" (Dan. 5:20). There is no reasoning with a proud man; he castles himself in his own opinion of himself and there stands upon his defense against all arguments that are brought.
Pride0Be humble when thou art most holy. Which way soever pride works (as thou shalt find it like the wind, sometimes at one door and sometimes at another), resist it. Nothing more baneful to thy holiness. It turns righteousness into hemlock, holiness into sin. Never art thou less holy than when puffed up with the conceit of it.
Pride0A man may be so very zealous in prayer and painstaking in preaching, and all the while pride is the master whom he serves, though in God's livery. It can take sanctuary in the holiest actions and hide itself under the skirt of virtue itself. Thus, while a man is exercising his charity, pride may be the idol in secret for which he lavished out his gold so freely. It is hard starving this sin; there is nothing almost but it can live on.
Pride0A proud heart and a lofty mountain are never fruitful.
Pride0A proud heart will make a cross to itself where a lowly soul would find none. Crook in the Lot
Crook in the LotPride0Pride of heart overlooks and vilifies mercies one is possessed of and fixes the eye on what is wanting in one's condition, making one like the flies, which pass over the sound places and swarm together on the sore. Crook in the Lot
Crook in the LotPride0The proud man will be pulling down of others in their reputation, and so by their eclipse he thinks he shall shine the brighter.
Pride0If God isn't in his rightful place at the center of your family, guess who you'll stick in his place? Yourself! You'll make it all about you -your schedule, your pleasure, your control.
Family0Pride is the most hidden, secret, and deceitful of all lusts.
Pride0Run from pride, for it is a passion more treacherous than any other.
Pride0Pride is the very image of the devil.
Pride0The lesser we discern pride in ourselves the more it reigns in our hearts.
Pride0The sin of pride is so ingrained in us that even when other sins decrease, pride grows.Divine Judgment and Mercy in the Second Plague 154
Divine Judgment and Mercy in the Second Plague 154Pride0Pride loves to climb up, not as Zacchaeus Golden Treasury
Golden TreasuryPride0Contentment celebrates grace. The contended heart is satisfied with the Giver and is therefore freed from craving the next gift.
Contentment, Grace0Forgiveness is a vertical commitment that is followed by a horizontal transaction.
Forgiveness0