Excessive pride Quote by Ken Follett

When you're thinking, please remember this: excessive pride is a familiar sin, but a man may just as easily frustrate the will of God…

— Ken Follett

Pride, like humility, is destroyed by one's insistence that he possesses it.

— Kenneth Clark

“When we become proud, we operate outside the grace God only gives to the humble. Humility preserves us; pride destroys us.”

— Randy Alcorn

“Humility, the place of entire dependence upon God, is from the very nature of things the first duty and the highest virtue of His…

— Andrew Murray

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

— Anonymous

“The preachers tell us that pride is a great sin, but the preachers are wrong. Pride makes a man, it drives him, it is…

— Bernard Cornwell

No matter how dear you are to God, if pride is harboured in your spirit, He will whip it out of you. They that…

— Charles Spurgeon

“He was too simple to wonder when he had attained humility. But he knew he had attained it and he knew it was not…

— Ernest Hemingway

“Pride is the oldest and commonest of sins. Humility is the rarest and most beautiful of graces.”

— J.C. Ryle

Pride is a fruitful source of uneasiness. It keeps the mind in disquiet. Humility is the antidote to this evil.

— Lydia Sigourney

“We may be afraid to ask God to keep us humble. Why are we not far more frightened of what pride can do?”

— Beth Moore