A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
Pride
Matt Stinton
People will call for corporate repentance but rarely include themselves in that call. If we are to see revival, personal repentance is key. Realigning our hearts with the Holy Spirit is what the church desperately needs. We have taken our cues for how to handle disagreement from the world rather than from God or His word.
Author Unknown
Humility is a paradox. The moment you think you’ve finally found it, you’ve lost it. There has yet to be written a book titled, “Humility and How I Achieved It.” And yet, God expects (and rewards) an attitude of servant-like humility in His followers.
R. C. Sproul
Perhaps the most difficult task for us to perform is to rely on God’s grace and God’s grace alone for our salvation. It is difficult for pride to rest on grace. Grace is for other people – for beggars. We don’t want to live by a heavenly welfare system. We want to earn our own way and atone for our own sins. We like to think that we will go to heaven because we deserve to be there.
Rick Warren
Humility applies all I read in Scripture to me. Pride applies it to everyone else but me.
Jerry Bridges
One of the most difficult defilements of the spirit to deal with is the critical spirit. A critical spirit has its root in pride. Because of the ‘plank’ of pride in our own eye we are not capable of dealing with the ‘speck’ of need in someone else. We are often like the Pharisee who, completely unconscious of his own need prayed “God, I thank you that I am not like other men” (Luke 18:11). We are quick to see – and to speak of – the faults of others, but slow to see our own needs. How sweetly we relish the opportunity to speak critically of someone else – even when we are unsure of the facts. We forge that “a man who stirs up dissension among brothers” by criticizing one to another is one of the “six thing which the Lord hates” (Proverbs 6:16-19)
Kris Vallotton
Some believe that calling out greatness in people promotes pride. True humility is not thinking less of yourself but thinking of yourself less. The truth of God’s grace humbles people without degrading them and exalts people without inflating them.
Brian Hardin
The promise of riches and prestige has historically caused many great people to compromise themselves and give way to false pride. Perhaps we should pay attention when we receive warnings from unexpected places. God sent an angel and a donkey to protect His people. He will go to great lengths to protect us—even from ourselves.
Vance K Jackson
Before God enlarges you, He strengthens you. Your promotion will not break you. Promotion was meant to propel you. The testing of your character, in private, was meant to strengthen you behind the scenes in order to prepare you for your public platform. Many collapse under the weight and pressure of self-promotion and self-exaltation. But when God promotes, His promotion is sustainable.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Our prayers may be very beautiful in appearance and might appear to be the very paragon of devotion, but unless there is a secret spiritual force in them, they are vain things.