Quotes about Arrogance

The proud wish God would agree with them. They are not interested in changing their opinions to agree with God's.

Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the sin, but the heart, or core, is still missing. The central feature of pride is enmity — enmity towards God and enmity toward our fellowmen.

Understanding the consequence of sin and arrogance should motivate every Christian to pray for repentance and revival.

Prayeressness is the first sign of prideful independence. We begin to trim back our secret time with God when we're feeling great about ourselves, energetic and optimistic about our future, and confident about the path we're taking. It's the first sign that we're getting full of ourselves.

Moral evil is the immorality and pain and suffering and tragedy that come because we choose to be selfish, arrogant, uncaring, hateful and abusive.

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

Sadly, the truth is, there aren't many people who can be put in high positions who won't start thinking highly of themselves.

Truth without humility would be an arrogant caricature.

In the scriptures there is no such thing as righteous pride. It is always considered as a sin.

Prosperity often leads to pride, which leads to sin.

Our sin is exactly the presumption that we can know God or ourselves through our own capacities.

As we are set free by that love from our own pride and fear, our own greed and arrogance, so we are free in our turn to be agents of reconciliation and hope, or healing and love.