Quotes about Arrogance

Loosed of his burden, Christian makes his way to the bottom of the hill where he finds three men fast asleep. Foolish represents spiritual dullness and ignorance. Sloth represents spiritual laziness. Presumption represents spiritual pride and arrogance. The consequences of all three conditions are self-inflicted incarceration and lack of progress on the King's Highway.

The arrogant utterly deride me, but I do not turn from Your law.

Men who refuse to worship the true God now worship themselves with tender devotion.

That is correct: They were broken off because of unbelief, but you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but be afraid.

Whatever you don't turn into praise turns into pride.

Behold, the day is here! It has come! Doom has gone out, the rod has budded, arrogance has bloomed.

When humans take up their divinely appointed role, looking after God's world on his behalf, this is not a Promethean attempt to usurp God's role. It is the humble, obedient carrying out of the role that has been assigned. The real arrogance would be to refuse the vocation, imagining that we knew better than God the purpose for which we have been put here.

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

“Who is this who obscures My counsel by words without knowledge?

The Great God Science. It has failed us, because it was never meant to be a god, but only a few true scientists understand that.

You will no longer see the insolent, a people whose speech is unintelligible, who stammer in a language you cannot understand.

There is a danger in Christians supposing that they simply have to be flaky, awkward, against the government all the time, continually doing things upside down and inside out. Some people of course seem to be born that way, and use the gospel imperative as an excuse for foisting their own cussedness or arrogance on everyone else.