Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Pride is essentially competitive in nature. We pit our will against God's.
Pride creates a noise within us which makes the quiet voice of the Spirit hard to hear. And soon, in our vanity, we no longer even listen for it. We can come quickly to think we don't need it.
It is true that I have been studying both humility and pride for many years for the purpose of weakening pride in my own life and cultivating humility by the grace of God.
Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.
Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
Holy humility confounds pride and all the men of this world and all things that are in the world.
So much of how we act and what we do is based on humility or pride - that's everything. And when you can humble yourself, you know, we are more like Christ when we can humble ourselves.
Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don't give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.
There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. 'Good pride' represents our dignity and self-respect. 'Bad pride' is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of conceit and arrogance.
There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.