Causes Quote by Anonymous

“...if pride, that plague of human nature, that source of so much misery, did not hinder it; for this vice does not measure happiness…

— Thomas More

All sufferings come from false pride.

— Anonymous

Pride is the parent of destruction; pride eats the mind and the heart and the soul alive.

— Anne Rice

Pride is the ground in which all the other sins grow, and the parent from which all the other sins come.

— William Barclay

Pride thinks it's own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.

— Thomas More

For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.

— Anonymous

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

— Anonymous

It is selfishness which is the cause of most of our misery.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

At every step of our Christian development and in every sphere of our Christian discipleship, pride is the greatest enemy and humility our greatest…

— John Stott

When everything comes from Jesus, it is spiritual insanity to have any form of pride.

— Derwin L. Gray

Pride, if not the origin, is the medium of all wickedness-the atmosphere without which it would instantly die away.

— Arthur Helps

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

— Ezra Taft Benson