Balance Quote by Blaise Pascal

Without the knowledge of our wretchedness, the knowledge of God creates pride. With it, the knowledge of God creates despair. The knowledge of Christ…

— Blaise Pascal

“Knowing God without knowing our wretchedness leads to pride. Knowing our wretchedness without knowing God leads to despair. Knowing Jesus Christ is the middle…

— Blaise Pascal

At the deepest level, pride is the choice to exclude both God and other people from their rightful place in our hearts. Jesus said…

— John Ortberg

The knowledge of God without that of man's misery causes pride. The knowledge of man's misery without that of God causes despair. The knowledge…

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Derwin L. Gray

“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 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 causes us to use our gifts as though they came from ourselves, not benefits received from God, and to usurp our benefactor's glory.

— Bernard of Clairvaux

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

— Anonymous

Pride causes us to care more about what our non-Christian friends think of us than what God will do to them in their sin.

— Mark Dever

In our proud love affair with ourselves we pour contempt, whether we know it or not, on the worth of God's glory. As our…

— John Piper

Nature, reason, and Christianity recognize no other. Pride may say Nay; but Pride was always a liar, and a great hater of the truth.

— Susanna Moodie