Contending Quote by Stephen Charnock Download Open image “Pride is self contending with God for preeminence.” — Stephen Charnock ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Contending Inspirational Love Pride Self
Pride is essentially competitive in nature. We pit our will against God's. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“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 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
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense. — Anonymous 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 a sin that can readily be seen in others but is rarely admitted in ourselves. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
While we fight and argue about abortion and sexual orientation, we apparently forgot one of the greatest sins that God continuously acknowledges He hates:… — Kirk Franklin 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
While we are contending for our own liberty, we should be very cautious not to violate the conscience of others, ever considering that God… — George Washington Copy Share Image
History more often records the brilliant successes and spectacular defeats of contending forces than the effect of war on the common people. — Mildred Cable Copy Share Image
The historian's distortion is more than technical, it is ideological; it is released into a world of contending interest, where any chosen emphasis supports… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I've started to show the consistency in majors I had in regular tournaments back in 1998-2000 when I was contending nearly every week. — Lee Westwood Copy Share Image
Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
The truth is, most of those female stories that are contending for Oscars are directed by men. Let's be honest. I looked at the… — Catherine Hardwicke Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It is not, perhaps, unreasonable to conclude, that a pure and perfect democracy is a thing not attainable by man, constituted as he is… — Alexander Fraser Tytler Copy Share Image
The true secret of natural goodness lies in the recognition of the contending rights of the Pairs of Opposites; there is no such antimony… — Dion Fortune Copy Share Image
There is no contending with necessity, and we should be very tender how we censure those that submit to it. It is one thing… — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
Christians have an important role to play in contending that no human life is "devoid of value." We can do so through courageous protest,… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending with those beginnings all of my life - that… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
