For our face and body were beautiful. Our face was not like the faces of our brothers, for we felt not pity when looking upon it. Our body was not like the bodies of our brothers, for our limbs were straigth and thin and hard and strong. And we thought that we could trust this being who looked upon us from the stream, and that we had nothing to fear with this being.
Ayn RandTags: freedom beauty pride individual
The power of the sky can be made to do men's bidding. There are no limits to its secrets and its might, and it can be made to grant us anything if we but choose to ask.
Ayn RandI am done with the monster of "We," the word of serfdom, of plunder, of misery, falsehood and shame.
And now I see the face of god, and I raise this god over the earth, this god whom men have sought since men came into being, this god who will grant them joy and peace and pride.
This god, this one word:
"I.
Tags: freedom god pride individual
Their eyes were dark and hard and glowing, with no fear in them, no kindness and no guilt.
Ayn RandWe alone, of the thousands who walk this earth, we alone in this hour are doing a work which has no purpose save that we wish to do it.
Ayn RandTags: freedom freedom-of-thought pride
In confession occurs the breakthrough of the Cross. The root of all sin is pride, superbia. I want to be my own law, I have a right to my self, my hatred and my desires, my life and my death. The mind and flesh of man are set on fire by pride; for it is precisely in his wickedness that man wants to be as God. Confession in the presence of a brother is the profoundest kind of humiliation. It hurts, it cuts a man down, it is a dreadful blow to pride...In the deep mental and physical pain of humiliation before a brother - which means, before God - we experience the Cross of Jesus as our rescue and salvation. The old man dies, but it is God who has conquered him. Now we share in the resurrection of Christ and eternal life.
Dietrich BonhoefferTags: sin confession pride christ the-cross
The warrior who goes off to battle should not boast as the one who returns from it.
Richard Paul EvansTags: pride honor humble battle boast brag
...the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.
Timothy J. KellerI am leaving now; but know, Katerina Ivanovna, that you indeed love only him. And the more he insults you, the more you love him. That is your strain. You precisely love him as he is, you love him insulting you. If he reformed, you would drop him at once and stop loving him altogether. But you need him in order to continually contemplate your high deed of faithfulness, and to reproach him for his unfaithfulness. And it all comes from your pride. Oh, there is much humility and humiliation in it, but all of it comes from pride.
Fyodor DostoevskyTags: love pride honor youthfulness dignity extreme-haughtiness extreme-pride
I thought of all the hardships and people that I had lost in the past few days alone, but, most of all, I thought of how I didn't regret any of it.
Shannon A. ThompsonTags: loss reflection life-lessons pride regret hardships
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