John Piper

Justification by Faith is the End of Boasting, May, 30, 1999, Sermon. Used by Permission, www.DesiringGod.org.

Boasting is the voice of pride in the heart of the strong. Self-pity is the voice of pride in the heart of the weak.

John Piper

Those that boast most of the religion may be suspected of partiality and hypocrisy in it.

Matthew Henry

Commentary, 1 Samuel 5:13.

Boasting is always suspicious, or superfluous. For real greatness no more needs a publisher, than the sun!

J.A. James

Christian Love, 1828.

Whatever we think valuable ought to be acknowledged as received from God. If then all the excellency we have is God’s gift, it is very strange that we do not learn humility when God thus binds us to Himself; but that, on the contrary, we abuse His bounty by making it the occasion of pride. This ingratitude has nevertheless ever prevailed in the world. This then is the reason why [God] reduces to nothing all the boastings of the world.

John Calvin
Commentary, Jeremiah 9, Lecture 38.

Grace puts its hand on the boasting mouth, and shuts it once for all.

C.H. Spurgeon