Excessive pride Quote by Ken Follett

“excessive pride is a familiar sin, but a man may just as easily frustrate the will of God through excessive humility.”

— Ken Follett

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

— Kenneth Clark

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

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

— Anonymous

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

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

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

— Lydia Sigourney

Pride is not the heritage of man; humility should dwell with frailty, and atone for ignorance, error, and imperfection.

— Albert Pike

All a man has is pride. Sometimes you have it so much it is a sin. We have all done things for pride that…

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Ezra Taft Benson

Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

— Baruch Spinoza