Contradiction Quote by Stephen Charnock Download Open image “A proud faith is as much a contradiction as a humble devil.” — Stephen Charnock ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Contradiction Devil Faith Humble Humility Proud Religion
It is a contradiction to be a sanctified man, or a true christian, and not humble. — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
The impression somehow prevails that the true believer, particularly the religious individual, is a humble person. The truth is that the surrendering and humbling… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Spiritual pride is the worst of all pride, if it is not the worst snare of the devil. The heart is peculiarly deceitful on… — Ichabod Spencer Copy Share Image
True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine a virtue. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Being brave in front of faith does not mean to be humble before death. — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
There is a very small difference between faith and pride: I can do it, is my faith. Only I can do it, is my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A proud person is so busy looking down on others they cannot humble themselves to look up at God. — LeCrae Copy Share Image
“The impression somehow prevails that the true believer, particularly the religious individual, is a humble person. The truth is the surrendering and humbling of… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
God opposes the proud. The way you get up front is do really good work in the back. Humility is a by product of… — Bradley Cooper Copy Share Image
The foundation of humility is truth. The humble man sees himself as he is. If his depreciation of himself were untrue,... it wouldnot be… — Henry Fairlie Copy Share Image
Without the heart it is no worship. It is a stage play. It is an acting of a part without being that person, really.… — Stephen Charnock Copy Share Image
Since therefore all things are ordered in subserviency to the good of man, they are so ordered by Him that made both man and… — Stephen Charnock Copy Share Image
Without the heart it is no worship; it is a stage play; an acting a part without being that person really which is acted… — Stephen Charnock Copy Share Image
Let us look upon a crucified Christ, the remedy of all our miseries. His cross hath procured a crown, his passion hath expiated our… — Stephen Charnock Copy Share Image
It is the black work of an ungodly man or an atheist, that God is not in all his thoughts. What comfort can be… — Stephen Charnock Copy Share Image
What a curious workmanship is that of the eye, which is in the body, as the sun in the world; set in the head… — Stephen Charnock Copy Share Image
Our ignorance of God is too great, because our estimations of God are too little. — Stephen Charnock Copy Share Image
God doth not govern the world only by his will as an absolute monarch, but by his wisdom and goodness as a tender father.… — Stephen Charnock Copy Share Image
No man is an unbeliever, but because he will be so; and every man is not an unbeliever, because the grace of God conquers… — Stephen Charnock Copy Share Image
“Man's wisdom detracts from the glory of God, who is more honoured by the simplicity of the gospel, than luxuriance of wit.” — Stephen Charnock Copy Share Image
Since we are dead in sin, a spiritual light and flame in the heart suitable to the nature of the object of our worship,… — Stephen Charnock Copy Share Image
The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is also plausible that those movements with the greatest inner contradiction and between profession and practice - that is to say with a… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Contradictions in human character are one of its most consistent notes. — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
“The tiny features below, taken together with the gentle mass of Montblanc towering above them, the Vanoise glacier almost invisible in the shimmering distance,… — W.G. Sebald Copy Share Image
There are evidently limits to the achievements of science; and there are irresolvable contradictions both between prosperity and virtue, and between happiness and ``the… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
To exist (in mathematics), said Henri Poincaré, is to be free from contradiction. But mere existence does not guarantee survival. To survive in mathematics… — Mark Kac Copy Share Image
I have never agreed with my other self wholly. The truth of the matter seems to lie between us. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
The pictures that were coming from Vietnam were showing us what was really happening on the ground level. It was in contradiction to what… — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
Here I encounter the most popular fallacy of our times. It is not considered sufficient that the law should guarantee to every citizen the… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The reflection of nature in man's thought must be understood not lifelessly but in the eternal process of movement, the arising of contradictions and… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
