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Our only protection against pride, and our only source of humility, is a proper view of God. Pride is the sin of competing with God, and humility is the virtue of submitting to His supreme glory.

John F. MacArthur

Pride is the perverse desire of height.

Augustine of Hippo

Themes: Evil; Humility; Pride; Sin

“Pride is the beginning of sin, the first impulse and movement toward evil. Perhaps indeed it is both the root and the foundation.… For every sin begins from it, and is maintained by it.… From pride springs contempt of the poor, desire of riches, the love of power, the longing for much glory.… There is therefore no evil like pride. It renders a man a demon, insolent, blasphemous, perjured, and makes him desirous of deaths and murders.… How then can a man extinguish pride? By knowing God. For if we know him, all pride is banished.”

John Chrysostom

Humility is the ornament of angels and pride the deformity of devils.

William Jenkyn

Boasting is the voice of pride in the heart of the strong. Self-pity is the voice of pride in the heart of the weak.

John Piper

Public worship will not excuse us from secret worship.

Matthew Henry

10    Pride and self-conceit are sins that beset great men. They are apt to take that glory to themselves which is due to God only.

Matthew Henry

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1706)

Matthew Henry