PRIDE-CURES

Do you feel more loved when God makes much of you or do you feel more loved when God at the cost of His Son allows you to make much of Him?

John Piper

Just as pride is the root of every evil, humility is the root of every virtue.

Stuart Scott

The Exemplary Husband, Focus Publishing, 2000, p. 185.

Proud people have a feeling – conscious or subconscious – that “this ministry is privileged to have me and my gifts.” They focus on what they can do for God. Broken people have a heart attitude that says, “I don’t deserve to have any part in this ministry”; they know that they have nothing to offer God except the life of Jesus flowing through their broken lives.

Nancy Leigh DeMoss

Brokenness, The Heart God Revives, Moody Publishers, 2002, p. 91.

How can anyone be arrogant when he stands beside the cross?

Carl Henry

They that know God will be humble, and they that know themselves, cannot be proud.

John Flavel

The focus of health in the soul is humility, while the root of inward corruption is pride. In the spiritual life, nothing stands still. If we are not constantly growing downward into humility, we shall be steadily swelling up and running to seed under the influence of pride.

J.I. Packer

Rediscovering Holiness. Christianity Today, v. 36, n. 13.

In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that – and, therefore, know yourself as nothing in comparison – you do not know God at all. 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.

C.S. Lewis

Poverty and affliction take away the fuel that feeds pride.

Richard Sibbes

A Puritan Golden Treasury, compiled by I.D.E. Thomas, by permission of Banner of Truth, Carlisle, PA. 2000, p. 16.

Only a Christian of strong grace can bear the strong wine of commendation without the spiritual intoxication.

William Jenkin

A Puritan Golden Treasury, compiled by I.D.E. Thomas, by permission of Banner of Truth, Carlisle, PA. 2000, p. 225.