It horribly skews the meaning of the cross when contemporary prophets of self-esteem say that the cross is a witness to my infinite worth... The biblical perspective is that the cross in a witness to the infinite worth of God's glory, and a witness to the immensity of the sin of my pride.
John Piper
There is a false self-distrust which denies the worth of its own talent. It is not humility - it is petty pride, withholding its simple gifts from the hands of Christ because they are not more pretentious. There are men who would endow colleges, they say, if they were millionaires. They would help in the work of Bible study if they were as gifted as Henry Drummond. They would strive to lead their associates into the Christian life if they had the gifts of Dwight L. Moody. But they are not ready to give what they have and do what they can and be as it has pleased God to make them, in His service - and that is their condemnation.
Charles Reynolds Brown
Short Biography and Listing of Papers at Yale.
God can never entrust His Kingdom to anyone who has not been broken of pride, for pride is the armor of darkness itself.
Francis Frangipane
Ministries of Francis Frangipane
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Humility: The Forgotten Virtue By Wayne A. Mack with Joshua Mack Most sins turn us away form God, but pride is a direct attack upon God. It lifts our hearts above Him and against Him. Pride seeks to dethrone God and enthrone itself. How can Christians fight against this sin and develop genuine humility? In this helpful book, Wayne Mack guides teachers through Scripture and shows us how we can take steps to develop humility and diminish the destructive pride in our lives. Readers will find here a resource that is practical, well illustrated, and relevant to their lives. |
Not until we have become humble and teachable, standing in awe of God's holiness and sovereignty... acknowledging our own littleness, distrusting our own thoughts, and willing to have our minds turned upside down, can divine wisdom become ours.
James I (J. I.) Packer
Brief Online Interview
There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he sees it in someone else; and of which hardly any people, except Christians ever imagine that they are guilty themselves....The essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere fleabites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil; Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind... As long as you are proud you cannot know God. 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.
(Clive Staples) C. S. Lewis
Into The Wardrobe
God descends to the humble as waters flow down from the hills into the valleys.
Tikhon
I have learned that much of my spiritual progress does not come directly from God, but through my ability to humble myself and hear Him speak through imperfect people. In fact, I have discovered that it pleases Him to hide His manifold wisdom in a variety of people and denominational perspectives. I know that the more I humble myself to others, the broader my understanding of God has actually become.
Francis Frangipane
Ministries of Francis Frangipane
I am only a wick... It is only when the wick is soaked in oil that it can burn... If people begin to talk about the wick, there is generally something wrong with the burning.
D. H. Dolman
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Sin, Pride & Self Acceptance: The Problem of Identity in Theology and Psychology By Terry D. Cooper In both theology and psychology there has been an ongoing debate over what is the chief problem in human identity. Is it pride or a lack of self esteem? Cooper surveys the main theological and psychological proponents of each side. The ensuing discussion between traditional Christian theology and current psychological theory points a way forward out of what seems to be a false dilemma. A model of the proper integration of theology and psychology, this book will greatly help students of psychology, students of pastoral ministry, students of clinical psychology and those working in the helping professions such as pastors and clinical psychologists. |
Wisdom is, and starts with, the humility to accept the fact that you don't have all the right answers, and the courage to learn to ask the right questions.
Anonymous
Resolved, if I take delight in it as a gratification of pride, or vanity, or on any such account, immediately to throw it by.
Jonathan Edwards
For Christ is of those who are humble-minded and not of those who exalt themselves over His flock. Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Scepter of the majesty of God, did not come in the pomp of pride or arrogance, although He might have done so. But He came in a lowly condition, as the Holy Spirit had declared regarding Him...You see, beloved, the example which has been given us. If the Lord so humbled Himself, what shall we do who have through Him come under the yoke of His grace?
Clement
Biography
Nothing is more false and more indiscreet than always to want to choose what mortifies us in everything. By this rule a person would soon ruin his health, his business, his reputation, his relations with his relatives and friends, in fact every good work which Providence gives him.
Francois Fenelon
Francis Fenelon Biography
Temper is what gets most of us into trouble. Pride is what keeps us there.
Anonymous
We do not very often come across opportunities for exercising strength, magnanimity, or magnificence; but gentleness, temperance, modesty, and humility, are graces which ought to colour everything we do. There may be virtues of a more exalted mould, but... these are the most continually called for in daily life.
Francis de Sales
Biography and Works
God created the world out of nothing; so as long as we are nothing, he can make something out of us.
Martin Luther
Biography and Information
In the upshot there is only one answer for the preacher who wonders whether he is worthy to preach the sermon he has composed or for the writer who wonders whether he is worthy to write the religious book he is working on. The answer is: Of course not. To ask yourself: Am I worthy to perform this Christian task? is really the peak of pride and presumption. For the very question carries the implication that we spend most of our time doing things we are worthy to do. We simply do not have that kind of worth.
Harry Blamires
Short Biography
Provided that God be glorified, we must not care by whom.
Francis de Sales
Biography and Works
Be not proud of race, face, place, or grace.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The Spurgeon Archive
There is no such thing as a "self-made" man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success.
George Matthew Adams
Humility is the way for us to open communication with the merciful God of heaven. It is far better to pray in a private "room," be unseen by man, and have the approval of God than to give a public display of prayer and have a heart full of pride.
Anonymous
The grand obstacle to the salvation of the scribes and Pharisees was their pride, vanity and self-love. They lived on each other's praise. If they had acknowledged Christ as the only good teacher, they must have given up the good opinion of the multitude; and they chose rather to lose their souls than to forfeit their reputation among men!
Adam Clarke
Biography
Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil's reach as humility.
Jonathan Edwards The Works of Jonathan Edwards
Human compliments are like perfume. Smell them, enjoy them while they last. Please don't drink them; they will poison you.
Anonymous
Humility is a strange flower; it grows best in winter weather, and under storms of affliction.
Samuel Rutherford
Selected Letters
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Forbidden Glory: Portraits of Pride By Judson Cornwall This is Judson Cornwall's final book, written while he was dying of bone cancer. In previous books he embraced God's glory, but in this book he is concerned with the Forbidden Glory. He will explain how the glory God chose to share with us is what we should reach for, but was insufficient to fill our egos with. He explains to you how we have reached out to embrace the glory that belongs exclusively to Him and should be left to Him. |
A humble person is more likely to be self confident... a person with real humility knows how much they are loved.
Cornelius Plantinga, Jr.
Calvin Seminary
Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
Henry Ward Beecher
Archives
Refusing to accept God's love because we're unworthy - of course we're unworthy! - is another golden calf.
Madeleine L'Engle
Bonasta
We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God ... We have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us!
Abraham Lincoln
No one enjoys feeling weak, whether it is emotionally, spiritually or physically. There is something within the human spirit that wants to resist the thought of weakness. Many times this is nothing more than our human pride at work. Just as weakness carries a great potential for strength, pride carries an equally great potential for defeat.
Charles Stanley
In Touch
The Church always fails at the point of self-confidence.
Samuel Chadwick
Biography
Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundations.
Augustine
Works And Biography
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Temptations Women Face: Honest Talk About Jealousy, Anger, Sex, Money, Food, Pride By Mary Ellen Ashcroft Mary Ellen Ashcroft knows about the confusing thoughts and feelings that women experience. In this book she writes about where the needs and motivations of women come from, what temptations hook into these needs, and how women can get beyond them. Ashcroft maintains that we should look honestly at our temptations and ask what they tell us about ourselves. She believes God's intention is not simply that we flee temptation, but that we be fully redeemed. This book shows the way through each temptation and how women can day by day begin to build a life pleasing to God. |
May God's grace give you the necessary humility. Try not to think - much less speak - of *their* sins. One's own are a much more profitable theme! And if on consideration, one can find no faults on one's own side, then cry for mercy: for this *must* be a most dangerous delusion.
(Clive Staples) C. S. Lewis
Into The Wardrobe
Satan's number one weapon is pride. God's number one defense is humility.
Larry Burkett
Money Matters
Lord, I renounce my desire for human praise, for the approval of my peers, the need for public recognition. I deliberately put these aside today, content to hear you whisper, "Well done, my faithful servant." Amen
Anonymous
Pride makes us hate our equals because they are our equals; our inferiors from the fear that they may equal us; our superiors because they are above us.
Jean Vianney
Biography
Humility is perfect quietness of heart. It is for me to have no trouble; never to be fretted or vexed or irritated or sore or disappointed. It is to expect nothing, to wonder at nothing that is done to me, to feel nothing done against me. It is to be at rest when nobody praises me and when I am blamed or despised. It is to have a blessed home in the Lord where I can go in and shut the door and kneel to my Father in secret and be at peace as in a deep sea of calmness when all around is trouble. It is the fruit of the Lord Jesus Christ's redemptive work on Calvary's cross, manifested in those of His own who are definitely subject to the Holy Spirit.
Andrew Murray
Biography And Works
Pride is the dandelion of the soul. Its root goes deep; only a little left behind sprouts again. Its seeds lodge in the tiniest encouraging cracks. And it flourishes in good soil: The danger of pride is that it feeds on goodness.
David Rhodes
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