I had such a hard time giving all the glory to God when first accepting Him as Lord. Coming out of a theatre background where there were many applauds and accolades, I suffered from what I call "attention-itis" - the need for recognition. It took many years and much eating of crow before I became conscious of giving all praise to God for my accomplishments.
Sheryl YoungStichwörter: humility glory pride praise recognition god-s-will
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.
A.W. TozerStichwörter: pride
If I understand this correctly Christ taught here the alarming doctrine that the desire for honor among men made belief impossible.
A.W. TozerStichwörter: belief pride honor
The heart of the world is breaking under this load of pride and pretense. There is no release from our burden apart from the meekness of Christ.
A.W. TozerBecause he could not afford to fail, he could not afford to trust.
Joseph J. EllisStichwörter: relationships trust pride vulnerability
I am, when you stop to think of it, a member of a fairly select group: the final handful of American novelists who learned to read and write before they learned to eat a daily helping of video bullshit.
Stephen KingStichwörter: reading experience writing thought television pride
This very pride in keeping his word was that he was keeping it to miscreants. It was his last triumph over these lunatics to go down into their dark room and die for something that they could not even understand. The barrel-organ seemed to give the marching tune with the energy and the mingled noises of a whole orchestra; and he could hear deep and rolling, under all the trumpets of the pride of life, the drums of the pride of death.
G.K. ChestertonThere were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the passions, and gave to the intellect a quickened sense of joy, greater than any joy they brought, or could ever bring, to the senses.
Oscar WildeStichwörter: joy memory pride intellect sins senses passions
The only way I could endure being a coward was if I was the only one who knew it.
Pat ConroyStichwörter: courage bravery pride
Arrogance is perhaps the most socially acceptable form of sin in the church today. In this culture of abundance, one of the only ways Satan can keep Christians neutralized is to wrap us up in pride. Conceit slips in like drafts of cold air in the winter. We don't see it, but outsiders can sense it.
David KinnamanStichwörter: arrogance conceit pride
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