453 quotes found
“Your arrogance doesn't cheapen me.”
“I am incapable of mediocrity.”
“My father referred to it as "the finest song ever written for fifteen fingers." He made me play it when I was getting too full of myself and felt I needed humbling. Suffice to say I practice it wit...”
“Arrogance is perhaps the most socially acceptable form of sin in the church today. In this culture of abundance, one of the only ways Satan can keep Christians neutralized is to wrap us up in pride...”
“It takes just a little attitudinal slip to show a big pride.”
“Arrogance is born of insecurity. Pride is different. It is born of dignity, self-worth, and self-respect. We all see the world through the prism of our identity. If our self-worth is low, it affect...”
“Arrogance is a map of a road that leads to bridges that are out.”
“At the point that it dawns on me that I am not God I have finally made room for God.”
“You are strong, tempered like steel in the fire and by the blows of the hammer of life. Nothing will break you again, only make you stronger and more whole. Perfection is the pride of those who hav...”
“But the arrogance of old age can cloak itself in the authority of past accomplishments, which can serve to confirm the belief that ones arrogance is justly held. It can shield a man from the realiz...”
“To declare myself as a genius immediately evidences that I am not.”
“Someone else deciding what was too dangerous for me to be involved in or pursue had never stopped me yet.”
“How strange that he should feel trapped by plans he himself had set in motion.”
“Some people brag about standing for something so hard and so much, that they do not realize that they are actually sitting.”
“I just believe that someday I'll meet a person who'd describe me from the side as thoroughly and eloquently as I can do it.”
“This is pride when the soul abandons Him to Whom it ought to cleave as its end and becomes a kind of end to itself. This happens when it becomes its own satisfaction.”
“Charles Wallace, the danger here is greatest for you." "Why?""Because of what you are. Just exactly because of what you are you will be by far the most vulnerable. You must stay with Meg and Calvin...”
“She laughed and said not to confuse pride with nobleness.”
“Do not turn your face from others with pride, nor walk arrogantly on earth. Verily the Almighty does not like those who are arrogant and boastful.”
“Nobody wants to give up a weekend-long excuse to dress up and attempt to outshine one another.”
