Your theology won’t always work toward your obedience, because your use of theology is dictated by the condition of your heart. If your heart is not submitting to the plan of God, you will actually...

Your arrogance doesn’t cheapen me.

The truly terrible thing about the war spirit, about the fear and hate hysteria it generates, is that it forces us to think and talk and feel in terms of abstractions—those “communists” this time, those...

It was easier to be the headstrong monk, a boy on a long-shot mission, before he actually won anything. With the prize in hand, he realized his single-minded drive came across as aloof cockiness; his...

Nothing disciplines the inordinate desires of the flesh like service, and nothing transforms the desires of the flesh like serving in hiddenness. The flesh whines against service but screams against hidden service. It strains and...

Who could better motivate Bill Russell than Bill Russell?

Pride is nothing more than false courage without long term solutions.

Studies have shown that, at least among students, popularity equals visibility.

As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on thing and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down you cannot see something...

A scientist is proud of his intelligence, an artist is proud of his imagination.

He who believes not in your quest should not sail with you, so that he won’t sink your ship

But struggling with these better feelings was pride,–the vice of the lowest and most debased creatures no less than of the high and self-assured. The miserable companion of thieves and ruffians, the fallen outcast of...

It may be a movement towards becoming like little children to admit that we are generally nothing else.

The only way to prevent pride from taking root in our heart and our life is to embrace a life filled with faith, understanding, and forgiveness.

What we fail to realize is we often become like Pharisees in our ruthless attempts to identify Pharisees (and impostors). While indeed some people use the old laws of religious pride to tear down men...

When you’re appeasing too much, you might be egotistically over-estimating everyone’s need for your approval.

Thank God I’m not blind anymore!

If you plant your crops in the weather of pride they will grow tall and fall down. Take away pride and your dreams will stand.

Chicago is incredibly gracious. People here have so much pride.

A hedge knight must hold tight to his pride. Without it, he was no more than a sellsword

I have my pride. I’m a director. I’m not going to go and recreate some other director’s vision.

Because he could not afford to fail, he could not afford to trust.

I will find you another long-forgotten Queen Mab poem in no time. Depend on it. I refuse to let Cody or anyone else know more about English Literature than me. So calm yourself, Elfish, and...

I do not wish to travel around the world. I already have the world trying to travel around me.

Let us thank God for valour in abstractionFor those who go their own way, will not kissThe arse of law and order nor compoundFor physical comfort at the price of pride

Lust, anger, attachment, greed, over pride be,Jealousy, selfishness, injustice, cruelty, ego truly;- 153 –

You’ll make bundle of blunders if you consider yourself too clever to look at anothers work.

Love the pride of the conquered nations, and leave them to honour their father and their mother.

If there were only some way of contriving that a state or an army should be made up of lovers and their loves, they would be the very best governors of their own city, abstaining...

i was delighted I had offended her upholstered sensibilities.

On Alex Rodriguez’s difficulty performing in clutch situations, Joe Torre writes, “In key situations, he can’t get himself to concern himself with getting the job done instead of how it looks. There’s a certain freefall...

If he didn’t have Ronnie already in his arms he’d have assumed she’d just opened the door…and aged a few years. Wow, he thought in surprise, she’s going to be hot when we hit fifty.

The nobility of England would have snored through the Sermon on the Mount. But you’ll labor like scholars over a bulldogs pedigree.

There is no greater enemy than pride.

There’s pride and then there’s stupidity.

The actors today really need the whip hand. They’re so lazy. They haven’t got the sense of pride in their profession that the less socially elevated musical comedy and music hall people or acrobats have....

Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

Offspring were a joy or a shame, but still the crown of their elders, nature’s unpredictable creatures.

The dark war consciousness and pride have seized upon the weak, with great cynicisms and glib, soulless intellects, that grind away like robotic gears at what they despise and can never understand.

Humility is hard when someone has things like wealth, knowledge, & recognition that may tempt him/her behave and act pridefully. Otherwise, worrying about pride without these factors that predispose you, it is just an illusion.

A true generous heart can never revolve majorly with monetary skills nor business acumen nor cunning mind.

if you think you can organize your own salvation you are magnifying the very sin that keeps you from it.

It’s much easier on the emotions when one sees life as an experiment rather than a struggle for popularity.

For the believer, humility is honesty about one’s greatest flaws to a degree in which he is fearless about truly appearing less righteous than another.

We are to give (and take) true love without falling into the narcissistic habit of only trying to take it in.

Your pride for your country should not come after your country becomes great; your country becomes great because of your pride in it.

The most secretive news that can make you to shake hands with great people is humility. Pride on the other way is a dream killer.

What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you – what a revelation.

It was crazy. We are a defensive team. We take pride in that. We just couldn’t stop them. I just never had the feeling that you can’t stop anybody.

I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.