Pride - Boasting
Men may do what is morally good and yet never do anything that is acceptable to God, for they may not do it out of love and gratitude to God for his grace and mercy, but for the love and praise of self. [AFTG]
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The mercies of God make a sinner proud, but a saint humble. [ATFG]
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It is not so much the sense of your unworthiness, as your pride, that keeps you off from a blessed closing with the Lord Jesus. [PRASD]
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Some think it strength of grace to endure nothing in the weaker, whereas the strongest are readiest to bear with the infirmities of the weak. [TBR]
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Where there is a high mind, there is not the fear of God, and where there is the fear of God, the mind is not high, but lowly. [TFOG]
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Every reed needs bruising, by reason of the remainder of pride in our nature, and to let us see that we live by mercy. [TBR]
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After conversion we need bruising so that reeds may know themselves to be reeds, and not oaks. [TBR]
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Christ came down from heaven and emptied himself of majesty in tender love to souls. Shall we not come down from our high conceits to do any poor soul good? Shall man be proud after God has been humble? [BTR]
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There are no men on earth so soon entangled, and so easily conquered by error, as proud souls. [PRASD]
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Take heed of spiritual pride! Pride fills our fancies, and weakens our graces, and makes room in our hearts for error. [PRASD]