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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.
4 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
Pride 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
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.
There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence. Commentary on Luke 24:45
Pride is intolerable to pride.
Poverty 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.
There are none so knowing that God cannot blind; none so blind and ignorant whose eyes His Spirit cannot open.
Pride 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.
Be 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.
A 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.
A proud heart and a lofty mountain are never fruitful.
A proud heart will make a cross to itself where a lowly soul would find none. Crook in the Lot
Pride 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
The proud man will be pulling down of others in their reputation, and so by their eclipse he thinks he shall shine the brighter.
Pride is the most hidden, secret, and deceitful of all lusts.
Run from pride, for it is a passion more treacherous than any other.
Pride is the very image of the devil.
The lesser we discern pride in ourselves the more it reigns in our hearts.
The 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
Pride loves to climb up, not as Zacchaeus Golden Treasury
Tis inexpressible, and almost inconceivable, how strong a self-righteous, self-exalting disposition is naturally in man; and what he will not do and suffer, to feed and gratify it.Religious Affections
There is no fault which makes a man more unpopular, and no fault which we are more unconscious of in ourselves. And the more we have it ourselves, the more we dislike it in othersMere Christianity, 91
the more we have it in ourselves, the more we dislike it in others.Mere Christianity (121)
Stay close to the cross and never cease to be amazed and thankful that you are saved. People who are perpetually and thankfully amazed that God has saved them are not likely to be destroyed by pride.
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