Quotes about Arrogance

But, granted that learning without love is sterile and dry, enthusiasm without learning can easily become blind arrogance.

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.

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.

show me someone not full of herself and i'll show you a hungry person

We betray our modern arrogance and forget the place of mystery in God's dealing with us.

The greatest idol I will never truly remove is self.

C. S. Lewis once said, "A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you.

Foolishness is more than being stupid, that deadly combination of arrogance and ignorance.

Self-righteous people tend to be critical, dismissive, and impatient with others.

To every human being, sin is the ultimate undefeatable enemy. It captures and controls us all, and there is nothing we can do. It is either the height of arrogance or the depth of delusion to think that you are okay. None of us is okay apart from the invasion of grace that is the core purpose for the coming of Jesus.

It is wholly incomprehensible to think that thousands of years ago God would have felt constrained to speak in a way that would be meaningful only to Westerners several thousand years later. To do so borders on modern, Western arrogance.

Now I know that the LORD is greater than all other gods, for He did this when they treated Israel with arrogance.”