“I am more than a little jealous that the wonder I am party to has been sprinkled over Salinger's gray head.” — W.P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
“If you were madly in love, you’d want me to win,’ said Katherine. “‘I’m not sure that’s true,’ said Sam. ‘I think… — Edward St. Aubyn Copy Share Image
It was under a solemn consciousness of the dangers from ecclesiastical ambition, the bigotry of spiritual pride, and the intolerance of sects...… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
We must be careful to avoid spiritual elitism. Everything we are and anything we possess as believers in Christ is a gift… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
Aside from higher considerations, charity often operates as a vastly wise and prudent principle-a great safeguard to its possessor. Men have committed… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
For a long time—always, in fact—I have known that life here on earth is not what I needed and that I wasn’t… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The deceitfulness of the heart of man appears in no one thing so much as this of spiritual pride and self-righteousness. The… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Spiritual pride is the worst of all pride, if it is not the worst snare of the devil. The heart is peculiarly… — Ichabod Spencer Copy Share Image
Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
“Also, asceticism is all right when it is the proper means of attaining some special end. It is when it produces eructations… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“On the Path of the Wise there is probably no danger more deadly, no poison more pernicious, no seduction more subtle than… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“Loosed of his burden, Christian makes his way to the bottom of the hill where he finds three men fast asleep. Foolish… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
“Spiritual pride tends to speak of other persons’ sins with bitterness or with laughter and levity and an air of contempt. But… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“We should get into the way of appearing lively in religion, more by being lively in the service of God and our… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though perhaps adorned… — Johann Arndt Copy Share Image
“That’s the oldest sin of all. Pride. Spiritual pride. Believing that you’re better than others. Believing that you’re enlightened, you’re smart, you’re… — Jerome Wilde Copy Share Image
“Explaining temptation by saying “God is testing me” or “Satan is attacking me” positions “me” either as the victim, if I am… — Colin S. Smith Copy Share Image
A concern for doctrinal purity should always be based on love of the Lord, not a desire to express spiritual pride. — Max Anders Copy Share Image
“Man in his spiritual pride has exchanged God’s method of self-denial for Satan’s plan of self–improvement.” — Daniel W. Blair Copy Share Image
“ OLYMPAS: There is one doubt. When souls attain Such an unimagined gain Shall not others mark them, wise Beyond mere mortal… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“Spiritual pride is a far more deadly sin than concubinage; selfishness is a far more deadly sin than polygamy; hatred is a… — Roland Allen Copy Share Image
Pride takes many forms, but spiritual pride is the most grievous. To become proud of spiritual gifts or leadership position is to… — J. Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
“Too many of us focus on the outward structure of character and conduct without taking the time to build the inward foundation… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
“For the Supernatural, entering a human soul, opens to it new possibilities both of good and evil. From that point the road… — Reflections on the Psalms C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The attitude that psychologists call inflation and the traditional lore of Cabalistic magic, borrowing a term from religion, calls spiritual pride is… — John Michael Greer Copy Share Image
