Attachment Quote by Idries Shah

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

— Anonymous

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

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

— Ezra Taft Benson

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

— 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 an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don't…

— Joyce Meyer

Pride is a sin that can readily be seen in others but is rarely admitted in ourselves.

— Ezra Taft Benson

Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the sin, but the heart,…

— Ezra Taft Benson

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

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... is the direct appreciation of oneself.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Pride is characterized by "What do I want out of life?" rather than by "What would God have me do with my life?" It…

— Ezra Taft Benson