The Christian Gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me. This leads to deep...

Forgiveness requires a sacrifice of pride. A humbling of the spirit. An increase of selfless love. A time when you allow others’ feelings to be more important than your own.

When he gets to his pew and looks round him he sees just that selection of his neighbors whom he has hitherto avoided. You want to lean pretty heavily on those neighbors. Make his mind...

when the serpent breathed the poison of his pride, the desire to be as God, into the hearts of our first parents, that they too fell from their high estate into all the wretchedness in...

As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal there will be those who will delight to offer affront to your idol.

My body is a political battlefield.It is a place of war, of death and suffering, of triumph and victory, of damage and repair, of blood and tears and sweat.It is a place where memories go...

He (William Howard Taft) had little patience with the unconscious arrogance of conscious wealth and financial success.

it is madness in al women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead into...

Unchecked pride evolves into swagger, a hypnotizing mask of insecurity that can and does compromise our ability to make progress and attain power. Pride stands in the way of forgiveness and a strategic approach to...

Humility is, in a sense, admitting how egotistical you are.

Love was not the point and pity was a poor man’s pride.

When you put your name on a fund, there’s a certain element of pride, of not wanting to be embarrassed or neglectful. . . . It forces you to want to work just a little...

A suburban pastor maintained services appropriate for his respected, professional parish. His father, an excitable traveling evangelist, visited and challenged the congregation to confront pride and sing out loudly with the windows open. The next...

Some of you need a lesson in humility. While your arrogance may give you a sense of power, it may serve you better to put it aside. Those are the times you will be the...

Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains?

But words mattered, more so in Newark than many other places. In a world where income and possessions were limited, words represented dignity, pride, self-worth.

Author describes that a failed sea captain, “vacillated miserably between self-recrimination and defensiveness.

Oh, noble child, everything is severing the mind. As for the mind, it is severing pride. There is nothing whatsoever that is not included in pride. If one simply understands that it is merely the...

Melodramas of moral courage provide satisfaction through the comforting fantasy that our own character would hold steady under the most extreme pressure of dreadful events. [But we must face] the painful awareness that in all...

After all we’d been through, we still couldn’t take our heads from out of our asses or our hands from around each other’s throats.

The thing is… I was a very proud girl. I never wanted to take the chance I might get hurt. Isn’t that funny? I was game for any exciting adventure that came my way, but...

Perfection isn’t necessarily found only in publicly accepted trends. Perfection is found in self.

We have a lot of pride in this program. No one is happy dropping nine or 10 in a row but we have plenty of opportunity to win these next 15 or so games. That’s...

I am Edema Ruh to my bones. That means my blood is red. It means I breathe the free air and walk where my feet take me. I do not cringe and fawn like a...

Don’t allow life to pass you by because you are afraid of [looking] stupid.

The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.

The tyrant is a child of PrideWho drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity,Until from his high crest headlongHe plummets to the dust of hope.

Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying.

In terms of achievement, the pride is very important to me. It keeps me going every day. The money is always second to me.

Pride measures prosperity not by her own advantages but by the disadvantages of others. She would not even wish to be a goddess unless there were some wretches left whom she could order about and...

It’s better to find success through God, than finding it on one’s own merits; some who usually find their own success become boastful, where through God it’s with gratitude.

Their eyes were dark and hard and glowing, with no fear in them, no kindness and no guilt.

Far too many people allow broken egos and wounded prides to convince them to seek justice before they seek understanding.

She laughed and said not to confuse pride with nobleness.

I’m proud to be a writer. I’m doing the job all my heroes did.

God hates this wishful dreaming because it makes the dreamer proud and pretentious. Those who dream of this idealized community demand that it be fulfilled by God, by others, and by themselves. They enter the...

Dear me, one day I’ll make you proud.

Be willing to give, but only when you aren’t expecting anything in return.

To see an enemy humiliated gives a certain contentment, but this is jejune compared with the highly blent satisfaction of seeing him humiliated by your benevolent action of concession on his behalf. That is a...

Put off the fire of pride and save your life from burning with flames of failure. Pride is the reason why many dreams only survive as ashes today. Learn the lesson; hung on to humility!

Self-control is a divided battle in one body. The “self” produces desires that “you” must battle with and kick off. Two wrestlers in one body. Just imagine. It’s difficult, though rewarding!

Jon takes a lot of pride in providing the best water possible and this has really been bothering him.

Its too hard to make a Lion Angry… He really doesn’t care what others do around him… but if you do hurt His PRIDE… He wont let you live another Day

But Dad looked delighted. “My Mia’s singing ‘Waiting for Vengeance’ to my Teddy. What do you think about that?

… there are other proud people who have low self-esteem. They feel they haven’t lived up to their potential. They feel unworthy. They want to hide and disappear, to fade into the background and nurse...

No matter how old I get, I keep running into people who are smarter, nobler, and kinder. I really ought to start listening to them and telling my pride to shut up. I had gods...

I do not know whether anyone has ever succeeded in not enjoying praise. And, if he enjoys it, he naturally wants to receive it. And if he wants to receive it, he cannot help but...

Pride. You have it where you can have it.

Jennifer Merrick had stored all her tears inside her, and her pride and courage would never permit her to break down and shed them.

She bit me.