PRIDE & HUMILITY
Who made you to differ?We have been admiring our vile selves!
Can you think of all this, and still be proud!
High, supercilious thoughts of yourselves
Do not be proud of your fine feathers!
The most hidden, secret, and deceitful of all lusts
The mother and mistress of all the sins
The most secret, subtle, and insinuating of all sins!
A holy man will follow after humility
The only suitable dress for a saved sinner!
How can I flaunt myself proudly?
The poor worm is secretly indulging self-applause!
Christ is exalted — and Self is abased
Pride cannot live beneath the cross!
Selfishness withers and dies beneath Calvary!
If you are not as wicked as others
As many heads as a Hydra — and as many lives as a cat!
Vain-glory, self-delight and pride
That monstrous creature within us!
The worst viper in the human heart!
Are you seeking great things for yourself?
The garment which the Savior always wore
To nourish a serpent in the bosom!
They tempt the devil to fall in love with them!
It is a creature of many lives!
A tumor and swelling in the mind
Proud, dogmatic, and self-important
That man will never be a proud man!
The rarest and most beautiful of graces
They influence us more than we can imagine
Stripped of his peacock feathers
It is mercy that he is out of Hell!
All are more or less deeply infected with it
A common, old, subtle, and most soul ruining sin.
Is any spot too low for me to creep into and lie in?
It pulls down the plumes of his pride!
He is tossed from vanity to vanity
A vile, creeping, insinuating thing, which will twist itself like a serpent into our hearts!
Building monuments to yourself!
This most hateful disposition!
He must increase — but I must decrease
The soil where graces thrive best
It is nothing else but human folly
A proud sinner and a humble Savior!
The great master-scar of the soul
Thousands imagine that they are humble
The foulest filth under the cleanest cloak
The wretched worm of the earth!
The strong man sinks down into a babe!
The idol SELF must be dethroned!
The most incongruous of all things
Man — that puny worm of the dust!
Like coins from the same mint!
The parent of numberless sins?
Low in the deep valley of humility
It will engraft itself upon our holy things!
When men have ridden the high horse
To keep me from getting puffed up
"By the grace of God I am what I am."
That hideous idol SELF in his little shrine
There is a 'boasting bump' on all our heads?
O what a way of learning religion!
A heap of ostentatious service!
Pride, worldliness, and covetousness
A vile, creeping, serpentine thing...
Do you seek you great things for yourself?
What a sin-killing, self-abasing sight!
A filthy, stinking bag of worms!
This disclosure is revolting to our pride!
The idol, SELF, falls prostrate before Jesus Christ!
Perhaps in the time of our humiliation
The image and reflection of Christ!
If Mr. Pride gets a wound in the head
A mass of pollution,
a den of filthiness,
a seething mass of putrefaction!Three steps in the Christian's life.
Pride cannot live beneath the cross!
Thousands imagine that they are humble
All the miseries, vexations, and complaints
Pride eats at the root of all happiness!
The bane of all true godliness?
O Lord! I desire to be humbled
The highest grace that can adorn the Christian character
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