Moral Quote by John Irving Download Open image “If pride is a sin ... moral pride is the greatest sin.” — John Irving ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Moral Pride Sin
Pride is a sin that can readily be seen in others but is rarely admitted in ourselves. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Pride is not the worst of sins. In fact, it's one of the most interesting ones. — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Pride is more than the first of the seven deadly sins; it is itself the essence of all sin. — John Stott Copy Share Image
The sin of pride is the sin of sins; in which all subsequent sins are included, as in their germ; they are but the… — Richard Chenevix Trench Copy Share Image
Pride is the ground in which all the other sins grow, and the parent from which all the other sins come. — William Barclay Copy Share Image
Pride is when sinful human beings aspire to the status and position of God and refuse to acknowledge their dependence upon Him. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the scriptures there is no such thing as righteous pride. It is always considered as a sin. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from… — John Irving Copy Share Image
… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life. — John Irving Copy Share Image
Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean––make sure they know what they mean! — John Irving Copy Share Image
The desire to never leave your side, the desire to never see you again. The desire to see your face asleep on the pillow… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little things I had found out was about that zoo. It was… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“God, I think I just hit a high E-flat - and I really held it!" Esmeralda said, after one of her more prolonged orgasms,… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“Nostalgia!" Miss Frost cried. "You´re nostalgic!" She repeated. "Just how old are you, William?" She asked. "Seventeen, " I told her. "Seventeen!" Miss Frost… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“JUST BECAUSE A BUNCH OF ATHEISTS ARE BETTER WRITERS THAN THE GUYS WHO WROTE THE BIBLE DOESN'T NECESSARILY MAKE THEM RIGHT!" [Owen Meany] said… — John Irving Copy Share Image
It is much easier to be flexible about where a story begins than it ever was for me to change my mind about where… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“Only the chicken-lover will understand me. He will give me a kindly look, maybe mildly desirous. His eyes will tell me: You might look… — John Irving Copy Share Image
You're nice,' Cushie told him, squeezing his hand. 'And you're my oldest friend.' But they both must have known that you can know someone… — John Irving Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I raised another shot. "That sound you hear is the heads of moral conservatives spontaneously exploding in the distance. — Rob Thurman Copy Share Image
Humans are, as Sartre put it, 'condemned to be free'. To insist that science, or God, objectively defines moral values is to abandon our… — Kenan Malik Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
I never knew a man who deserved to be thought well of for his morals who had a slight opinion of our Sex in… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Your idea of fidelity is not having more than one man in bed at the same time. — Frederic Raphael Copy Share Image
I do conscientiously and sincerely believe that the Order of Freemasonry, if not the greatest, is one of the greatest moral and political evils… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Although religion might be useful in developing a solid moral framework - and enforcing it - we can quite easily develop moral intuitions without… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
