Quotes

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Proverbs

Proverbs are pithy statements that summarize in a few choice words practical truths relating to some aspect of everyday life. The Spanish novelist Cervantes defined a proverb as “a short sentence based on long experience.”

Warren W. Wiersbe

Pride

There is no pride so insidious and yet so powerful as the pride of orthodoxy.

A. W. Tozer

Self-will is a close relative of pride.

A. W. Tozer

The root of pride is saying that we can do without God.

James Montgomery Boice

Other sins are against God’s law, but pride is against God’s sovereignty.

Thomas Manton

Pride is a denial of dependence upon God.

John Blanchard

1127Better to lose your pride than to lose your soul! Why be damned for pride’s sake? Why carry your head so high that it must be cut off? Why feed your pride on your soul’s blood? Surely there is cheaper stuff than that for pride to drink!—7.216

Charles Spurgeon

In his pride, Moses lost his temper and was kept out of the Promised Land (Numbers 20:1–13). Pride kept Joshua from seeking God’s will at Ai, and he lost the battle (Joshua 7). King Nebuchadnezzar’s pride turned him into an animal (Daniel 4), and Peter’s pride led to his denial of Christ (Luke 22:31–34).

Warren W. Wiersbe

Work

We have worked, we have even worked hard; but the question comes to us—“What have we worked for? Who has been our master? With what object have we toiled?”

Charles Spurgeon

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

Man was made to work, because the God who made him was a ‘working God’.

Sinclair Buchanan Ferguson

He who turns up his nose at his work quarrels with his bread and butter.

Charles Spurgeon

Men were created to employ themselves in some work, and not to lie down in inactivity and idleness.

John Calvin

Anxiety

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow—only today of its strength.

Charles Spurgeon

The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of faith is the end of anxiety.

—George Mueller

George Mueller

Patience means waiting without anxiety.

Francis de Sales