Abode Quote by Alexander Pope

“In pride, in reasoning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest…

— Alexander Pope

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring…

— Alexander Pope

Men say, "By pride the angels fell from heaven." By pride they reached a place from which they fell!

— Joaquin Miller

Pride has a greater share than goodness in the reproofs we give other people for their faults; and we chide them not so much…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“When we become proud, we operate outside the grace God only gives to the humble. Humility preserves us; pride destroys us.”

— Randy Alcorn

Pride is when sinful human beings aspire to the status and position of God and refuse to acknowledge their dependence upon Him.

— Anonymous

Pride is essentially competitive in nature. We pit our will against God's.

— Ezra Taft Benson

Let’s not fool ourselves into thinking that pride is a problem only for the lost. The most effective means the enemy has to keep…

— Beth Moore

Pride is competition-competition between God and Man.

— Ezra Taft Benson

Pride is one of the most, if not the most horrible sin that any human being can be guilty of. Pride is the sin…

— Anonymous

“Pride takes innumerable forms but has only one end: self-glorification. That’s the motive and ultimate purpose of pride—to rob God of legitimate glory and…

— C.J. Mahaney

“Pride is the beginning of sin. And what is pride but the craving for undue exaltation? And this is undue exaltation - when the…

— Augustine of Hippo