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That's the choice: eternal death or eternal life. To gain eternal life, you have to let go of your spiritual pride, and die to yourself. To lead others to Christ, to save them from this eternal judgment, you have to speak that truth in love; you have to tell them the truth without pulling any punches. Does that seem impossible? Will your audience turn you off? Well, as we can see, they turned Jesus off. In fact, they hated His message so much, His own neighbors and relatives, in a rage, tried to kill him for preaching it. ~ John F. MacArthur Jr.
Spiritual Pride quotes by John F. MacArthur Jr.
Explaining temptation by saying "God is testing me" or "Satan is attacking me" positions "me" either as the victim, if I am defeated, or the hero, if I prevail. But confessing that "My heart is desperately wicked" provides no such comforts. It heads off all attempts to shift blame, and cuts down all the pretensions of spiritual pride. ~ Colin S. Smith
Spiritual Pride quotes by Colin S. Smith
Spiritual pride is the worst of all pride, if it is not the worst snare of the devil. The heart is peculiarly deceitful on just this one thing. ~ Ichabod Spencer
Spiritual Pride quotes by Ichabod Spencer
We must be careful to avoid spiritual elitism. Everything we are and anything we possess as believers in Christ is a gift of grace. Pure hearts before God must be cleansed from any hint of spiritual pride. ~ Beth Moore
Spiritual Pride quotes by Beth Moore
A concern for doctrinal purity should always be based on love of the Lord, not a desire to express spiritual pride. ~ Max Anders
Spiritual Pride quotes by Max Anders
Pride and vanity, the opposites of humility, can destroy our spiritual health as surely as a debilitating disease can destroy our physical health. ~ Joseph B. Wirthlin
Spiritual Pride quotes by Joseph B. Wirthlin
For the Supernatural, entering a human soul, opens to it new possibilities both of good and evil. From that point the road branches: one way to sanctity, love humility, the other to spiritual pride, self-righteousness, persecuting zeal. And no way back to the mere humdrum virtues and vices of the unawakened soul. ~ C.S. Lewis
Spiritual Pride quotes by C.S. Lewis
The attitude that psychologists call inflation and the traditional lore of Cabalistic magic, borrowing a term from religion, calls spiritual pride is one of the most serious dangers of this work.

Those who enter the path of magic with too great an appetite for flattery or too strong a need for ego reinforcement will very likely find these things, but they are also rather too likely to find fanaticism, megalomania and mental breakdown along the same route. The thing has happened far too often in the history of magic in the West. ~ John Michael Greer
Spiritual Pride quotes by John Michael Greer
That's the oldest sin of all. Pride. Spiritual pride. Believing that you're better than others. Believing that you're enlightened, you're smart, you're in the know, and everyone else is stumbling about blindly in the darkness. The old us-versus-them. My group is better than your group. My people, my nation, my country, my religion, my gender, my sexual orientation. Old as sin. And it's a Big Lie. ~ Jerome Wilde
Spiritual Pride quotes by Jerome Wilde
If you were madly in love, you'd want me to win,' said Katherine.

"'I'm not sure that's true,' said Sam. 'I think love is about equality: both of us equally happy with either result. One-sided self-sacrifice is only enabling someone else's egoism. Altruists always end up riddled with resentment, or if they make that last superhuman effort, with spiritual pride.'

"'Oh,' said Katherine, 'you mean you're not going to enable my egoism.'

"'Okay, okay,' said Sam 'you're right – love is doing everything you want all the time. ~ Edward St. Aubyn
Spiritual Pride quotes by Edward St. Aubyn
Knowing has two poles, and they are always poles apart: carnal knowing, the laying on of hands, the hanging of the fact by head or heels, the measurement of mass and motion, the calibration of brutal blows, the counting of supplies; and spiritual knowing, invisibly felt by the inside self, who is but a fought-over field of distraction, a stage where we recite the monotonous monologue that is our life, a knowing governed by internal tides, by intimations, motives, resolutions, by temptations, secrecy, shame, and pride. ~ William H Gass
Spiritual Pride quotes by William H Gass
For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense. ~ C.S. Lewis
Spiritual Pride quotes by C.S. Lewis
The seeker should have faith in himself and in his master. He should have faith that God is ever by his side and that no evil can touch him. As faith springs up in the heart it dries out lust, ill-will, mental sloth, spiritual pride and doubt, and the heart freed from these hindrances becomes serene and untroubled. ~ B.K.S. Iyengar
Spiritual Pride quotes by B.K.S. Iyengar
Being a Barrymore didn't help me, other than giving me a great sense of pride and a strange spiritual sense that I felt OK about having the passion to act. It made sense because my whole family had done it and it helped rationalise it for me. ~ Drew Barrymore
Spiritual Pride quotes by Drew Barrymore
The sins after the Devil's heart are the intricacies of spiritual pride, the mazes of self-deception, and the subtle mockeries of hypocrisy where mask hides behind mask behind mask and reality is lost altogether. ~ Alan W. Watts
Spiritual Pride quotes by Alan W. Watts
Man in his spiritual pride has exchanged God's method of self-denial for Satan's plan of self–improvement. ~ Daniel W. Blair
Spiritual Pride quotes by Daniel W. Blair
Even the wisest people learn little from their successes; God warns His people against allowing their victories (which He will grant) to lead them into pride and spiritual indifference. Instead, they should pay close attention to God's Word. ~ Max Anders
Spiritual Pride quotes by Max Anders
Spiritual pride tends to speak of other persons' sins with bitterness or with laughter and levity and an air of contempt. But pure Christian humility rather tends either to be silent about these problems or to speak of them with grief and pity. Spiritual pride is very apt to suspect others, but a humble Christian is most guarded about himself. He is as suspicious of nothing in the world as he is of his own heart. The proud person is apt to find fault with other believers, that they are low in grace, and to be much in observing how cold and dead they are and to be quick to note their deficiencies. But the humble Christian has so much to do at home and sees so much evil in his own heart and is so concerned about it that he is not apt to be very busy with other hearts. He is apt to esteem others better than himself. ~ Jonathan Edwards
Spiritual Pride quotes by Jonathan Edwards
It is also possible to say precisely why. Truth seduces us very easily into a kind of joy of possession: I have comprehended this and that, learned it, understood it. Knowledge is power. I am therefore more than the other man who does not know this and that. I have greater possibilities and also greater temptations. Anyone who deals with truth - as we theologians certainly do - succumbs all too easily to the psychology of the possessor. But love is the opposite of the will to possess. It is self-giving. It boasteth not itself, but humbleth itself. ~ Helmut Thielicke
Spiritual Pride quotes by Helmut Thielicke
Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride. ~ Samuel Richardson
Spiritual Pride quotes by Samuel Richardson
Also, asceticism is all right when it is the proper means of attaining some special end. It is when it produces eructations of spiritual pride, and satisfied vanity, that it is poisonous. The Greek word means an athlete; and the training of an athlete is not mortification of the body. Nor is there any rule which covers all circumstances. When men go "stale" a few days before the race, they are "taken off training," and fed with champagne. But that is part of the training. Observe, too, that all men go "stale" sooner or later; training is abnormal, and must be stopped as soon as its object is attained. Even so, it too often strains vital organs, especially the heart and lungs, so that few rowing "Blues" live to be 50. But worst of all is the effect on the temper!

When it is permanent, and mistaken for a "Virtue," it poisons the very soil of the soul. The vilest weeds spring up; cruelty, narrowmindedness, arrogance - everything mean and horrible flowers in those who "Mortify the flesh." Incidentally, such ideas spawn the "Black Brother." The complete lack of humour, the egomaniac conceit, self-satisfaction, absence of all sympathy for others, the craving to pass their miseries on to more sensible people by persecuting them: these traits are symptomatic. ~ Aleister Crowley
Spiritual Pride quotes by Aleister Crowley
The most outstanding manifestation of negative growth in the spiritual, mental and physical health of the human race through eons of evolution is the pride of place that has been given to Guilt. ~ Zeina
Spiritual Pride quotes by Zeina
This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though perhaps adorned with greater gifts, and endowments. ~ Johann Arndt
Spiritual Pride quotes by Johann Arndt
It was under a solemn consciousness of the dangers from ecclesiastical ambition, the bigotry of spiritual pride, and the intolerance of sects ... that is was deemed advisable to exclude from the national government all power to act upon the subject. ~ Joseph Story
Spiritual Pride quotes by Joseph Story
When I think of happiness or joy in this life, I begin with some experiences that are simple and basic. I see the expression on the face of a one-year-old taking those first steps. I think of a child loving a puppy or a kitten. If the more mature have not dulled their physical or spiritual sensitivities by excess or disuse, they can also experience joy in what is simple and basic. ~ Dallin H. Oaks
Spiritual Pride quotes by Dallin H. Oaks
My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a certain amount of pride and my elder brother the usual fraternal jealousy of a hitherto only son. ~ Conrad Veidt
Spiritual Pride quotes by Conrad Veidt
It is not true that Islam makes it impossible for Muslims to create a modern secular society, as Westerners sometimes imagine. But it is true that secularization has been very different in the Muslim world. In the West, it has usually been experienced as benign. In the early days, it was conceived by such philosophers as John Locke (1632–1704) as a new and better way of being religious, since it freed religion from coercive state control and enabled it to be more true to its spiritual ideals. But in the Muslim world, secularism has often consisted of a brutal attack upon religion and the religious.

Atatürk, for example, closed down all the madrasahs, suppressed the Sufi orders and forced men and women to wear modern Western dress. Such coercion is always counterproductive. Islam in Turkey did not disappear, it simply went underground. Muhammad Ali had also despoiled the Egyptian ulama, appropriated their endowments and deprived them of influence. ~ Karen Armstrong
Spiritual Pride quotes by Karen Armstrong
The thing that moves us to pride or shame is not the mere mechanical reflection of ourselves but the imagined effect of this reflection upon another's mind. ~ Charles Horton Cooley
Spiritual Pride quotes by Charles Horton Cooley
You don't just walk out because you think someone has insulted you and your pride has been hurt. ~ Jimmy Iovine
Spiritual Pride quotes by Jimmy Iovine
Group Meditation is a castle that protects the new spiritual aspirants as well as the veteran meditators. Meditating together increases the degree of Self-realization of each member of the group by the law of invisible vibratory exchange of group magnetism. ~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Spiritual Pride quotes by Paramahansa Yogananda
Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma. ~ Joseph Joubert
Spiritual Pride quotes by Joseph Joubert
Hope is putting Faith "on the line" and expecting results!
(from Mission Possible - Spiritual Covering) ~ Deborah L. McCarragher
Spiritual Pride quotes by Deborah L. McCarragher
To know worldly relations as being 'relation' (temporary) will resolve everything. However, if they are believed to be true (real) relations, there will be insistence. In relative relations, one is not to prove 'I am correct'. One has to bring about a closure by saying, 'you are correct'. ~ Dada Bhagwan
Spiritual Pride quotes by Dada Bhagwan
As costly as it was in the lives of our men and women in uniform, in military assets, and in esteem and pride, Pearl Harbor was a watershed moment for America. ~ Joe Baca
Spiritual Pride quotes by Joe Baca
A friend is someone who can brighten your day with a simple smile, when others try to do it with a thousand words. ~ Rachel
Spiritual Pride quotes by Rachel
Inside of every eye is a whole world; inside of every soul is an entire universe. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Spiritual Pride quotes by Matshona Dhliwayo
Seek refuge in the attitude of detachment and you will amass the wealth of spiritual awareness. The one who is motivated only by the desire for the fruits of their action, and anxious about the results, is miserable indeed. ~ Bhagavad Gita
Spiritual Pride quotes by Bhagavad Gita
Perhaps the greatest psychological, spiritual, and medical need that all people have is the need for hope. ~ Billy Graham
Spiritual Pride quotes by Billy Graham
and it was the pride and ambition of the Jewish people to co-operate in the front ranks to carry on the former glory of the fame of Viennese culture. ~ Stefan Zweig
Spiritual Pride quotes by Stefan Zweig
'All the gods are one god and all the goddesses are one goddess, and there is one initiator.' The one initiator is one's own high self, with which the personality becomes more and more integrated as the path of spiritual evolution is followed. ~ Doreen Valiente
Spiritual Pride quotes by Doreen Valiente
In shukladhyan (Pure contemplation as the Self, the Soul), whole world begins to look faultless (nirdosh). In dharmadhyan, despite seeing the other person at fault; one will uphold him as being faultless that is 'dhramadhyan', 'what is the other person's fault? He is simply instrumental (nimit) in it. It is due to the effect of my own karmas that I have encountered him. ~ Dada Bhagwan
Spiritual Pride quotes by Dada Bhagwan
Evolving is not arrogance. It is confidence that won't be pulled backwards, by those that feel left behind. ~ Shannon L. Alder
Spiritual Pride quotes by Shannon L. Alder
Some people are ignorant of the world but educated in Scripture, and are therefore prone to missing the relevance of Scripture - these sometimes, later, amidst life's challenges and doubts, turn from the faith; other people are ignorant of Scripture but educated in the world, and are therefore prone to missing the truth of Scripture - they are often those who ridicule the faith. The apologist stands somewhere in the center. He articulates where some are prone to understanding the truth in beauty, others the beauty in truth - that of a spiritual Creator in relation to his scientific creation. ~ Criss Jami
Spiritual Pride quotes by Criss Jami
The reason we must put on the whole armor of God is to withstand evil. We don't war against people, but against a spiritual hierarchy of invisible power. ~ Stormie O'martian
Spiritual Pride quotes by Stormie O'martian
At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense. ~ Alexander Pope
Spiritual Pride quotes by Alexander Pope
Healing and positive life change comes from having the courage and spiritual conviction to look squarely at life's impermanence. ~ Meredith L. Young-Sowers
Spiritual Pride quotes by Meredith L. Young-Sowers
Truth is not the secret of a few'
yet
you would maybe think so
the way some
librarians
and cultural ambassadors and
especially museum directors
act

you'd think they had a corner
on it
the way they
walk around shaking
their high heads and
looking as if they never
went to the bath
room or anything

But I wouldn't blame them
if I were you
They say the Spiritual is best conceived
in abstract terms
and then too
walking around in museums always makes me
want to
'sit down'
I always feel so
constipated
in those
high altitudes ~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Spiritual Pride quotes by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
The first step towards knowing is to see that you do not know. ~ Jaggi Vasudev
Spiritual Pride quotes by Jaggi Vasudev
My Ego taught me a new pride, I teach it to men: No longer to bury the head in the sand of heavenly things, but to carry it freely, an earthly head which creates meaning for the earth! ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Spiritual Pride quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
The main requirement for spiritual growth: A yearning to know who you really are. ~ Adyashanti
Spiritual Pride quotes by Adyashanti
I find this to be true of my spiritual life, and maybe it applies to yours as well: I think about things more than I do them; I ponder what seems their goodness more than I perform them. As if my thought alone were enough. But a thought alone isn't quite enough; it's an impulse and not a commitment, a passing thing that doesn't take root unless you plant it and make it grow. ~ Peggy Noonan
Spiritual Pride quotes by Peggy Noonan
our spiritual aim is not to retreat once or twice a day for meditation, but to learn how to live every moment of our lives in touch with our spiritual core. ~ John Selby
Spiritual Pride quotes by John Selby
Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised. ~ Camille Paglia
Spiritual Pride quotes by Camille Paglia
Some journeys lead nowhere, but they set the spirit free ~ Jocelyn Murray
Spiritual Pride quotes by Jocelyn Murray
What punishment a free people can mete out to its enemy when aroused by unjust attack! Free America was speaking! Mighty America was speaking! I trembled with pride! My America was speaking! ~ William Arthur Sirmon
Spiritual Pride quotes by William Arthur Sirmon
Nixon was by nature a excluder. Halderman like to exclude people. When Nixon's need met Halderman's abilities, you had the most perfect formula for disaster. – Jim Shepley ~ David Pietrusza
Spiritual Pride quotes by David Pietrusza
And that is what radio-activity is, a quick return to the state of rest which underlies the spiritual or invisible universe. ~ Walter Russell
Spiritual Pride quotes by Walter Russell
Often suffering is the trigger, or a spiritual teaching, or both. Call it readiness, or grace. This is the beginning of the awakening process. ~ Eckhart Tolle
Spiritual Pride quotes by Eckhart Tolle
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be obtained only by someone who is detached. ~ Simone Weil
Spiritual Pride quotes by Simone Weil
We have wandered far from God; and if we wish to return to our Father's home, this world must be used, not enjoyed, that so the invisible things of God may be clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, - that is, that by means of what is material and temporary we may lay hold upon that which is spiritual and eternal. ~ Augustine Of Hippo
Spiritual Pride quotes by Augustine Of Hippo
I believe that the Hurricane Katrina was, in fact, the judgment of God against the city of New Orleans ... I believe that New Orleans had a level of sin that was offensive to God, and they are - were recipients of the judgment of God for that ... There was to be a homosexual parade there on the Monday that the Katrina came. And the promise of that parade was that it was going to reach a level of sexuality never demonstrated before in any of the other Gay Pride parades ... The Bible teaches that when you violate the law of God, that God brings punishment sometimes before the day of judgment. ~ John Hagee
Spiritual Pride quotes by John Hagee
The purpose of the Disciplines is freedom. Our aim is the freedom, not the Discipline. The moment we make the Discipline our central focus we will turn it into law and lose the corresponding freedom ... Let us forever center on Christ and view the Spiritual Disciplines as a way of drawing us closer to His heart. ~ Richard J. Foster
Spiritual Pride quotes by Richard J. Foster
We exalt our calling, not to gain glory among men, or money, or satisfaction, or favor, but because people need to be assured that the words we speak are the words of God. This is no sinful pride. It is holy pride. ~ Martin Luther
Spiritual Pride quotes by Martin Luther
Toynbee offers his own explanation of how and why societies survive and prosper. It is the leadership of "creative minorities" that keeps societies alive and flourishing. But when the "creative" minority becomes a "dominant" minority, imposing its will by force and oppression, then poletariats (internal and external) are created and the society disintegrates. Though fervent and profuse with the data of his "English empiricism," Toynbee still developed his own mystique to replace "destiny." The real progress of a civilization consists in what Toynbee calls "etherialization"-"an overcoming of material obstacles which releases the energy of the society to make responses to challenges which henceforth are internal rather than external, spiritual rather than material. ~ Daniel J. Boorstin
Spiritual Pride quotes by Daniel J. Boorstin
Many pride themselves, staking claim to the noble virtue that is loyalty. However, many resolve to give their allegiance to nothing. How can one demand loyalty, if one stands by nothing, nor commits to the realization of an ideal? ~ Justin K. McFarlane Beau
Spiritual Pride quotes by Justin K. McFarlane Beau
You've got this guy who refuses to die for some reason whether it be a physical or metaphysical reason or spiritual reason so you can do anything. You can kill off anybody and you can still bring them back because he's kind of half there and half in reality, you know? ~ Josh Brolin
Spiritual Pride quotes by Josh Brolin
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