Vainglory Quotes

9 quotes by 9 authors

• Nothing can tend so much to humble us before the mercy and justice of God as the consideration of His benefits and our own sins.… — Francis of Assisi
• Theoretically, we Mennonites do not even know what we look like, since a focus on our personal appearance is vainglorious. Our antipathy to vainglory explains… — Rhoda Janzen
• I say the same of humility and of all the virtues; the wiles of the devil are terrible, he will run a thousand times round… — Teresa of Avila
• For those who use their intelligence and their study as a weapon, the Rosary is most effective. Because that apparently monotonous way of beseeching Our… — Josemaria Escriva
• Vainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than sex. — Barbara Tuchman
• Wealth to us is not mere material for vainglory but an opportunity for achievement; and poverty we think it no disgrace to acknowledge but a… — Thucydides
• In the short summer night she learned so much. She would have thought a woman would have died of shame... She felt, now, she had… — D. H. Lawrence
• Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt is something one is… — Saint Augustine
• In the fallen there is danger of pride and vainglory, since they prefer their own judgment to the judgment of everyone else, usurping what is… — Saint Ignatius

Who Wrote These Vainglory Quotes

9 authors contributed a total of 9 Vainglory Quotes as follows:

• 1 Vainglory Quote by Saint Augustine
• 1 Vainglory Quote by Saint Ignatius
• 1 Vainglory Quote by Francis of Assisi
• 1 Vainglory Quote by Rhoda Janzen
• 1 Vainglory Quote by Teresa of Avila
• 1 Vainglory Quote by Josemaria Escriva
• 1 Vainglory Quote by Barbara Tuchman
• 1 Vainglory Quote by Thucydides
• 1 Vainglory Quote by D. H. Lawrence