Thomas Brooks Quotes

God's glory is the big news of the Bible, and my desire is that it would be all about me, but really it's all about God's glory.

Pride only, the chief of all iniquities, can make us treat gifts as if they were rightful attributes of our nature, and, while receiving benefits, rob our Benefactor of His due glory.

We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.

I never saw movies I was in because my mom told me that would be prideful, being stuck on yourself.

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.

Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.

I don't do the whole, 'Put my name on it, make me famous' thing.

Pride is a sin that can readily be seen in others but is rarely admitted in ourselves.

I think the best actors are the most generous, the kindest, the greatest people and at their worst they are vain, greedy and insecure.

A lot of self-importance goes on in the fashion industry. I'm not like that.

I mean, I don't like anyone who likes themselves too much.

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don't give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

Persons in high situations must particularly guard themselves against selfishness and vanity. An individual in a high and important situation will easily see a great many persons eager to please the first, and to flatter and encourage the last.

What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.

Vanity is not high on my list of priorities.

Our fleshly nature tempts us to put ourselves above others or seek a position or place for ourselves instead of allowing others to have it.

Egotism, pride, etc. must be given up.

In the midst of a world of light and love, of song and feast and dance, [Lucifer] could find nothing to think of more interesting than his own prestige.

It is much easier for me to imagine a praying murderer, a praying prostitute, than a vain person praying. Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.

Individuals motivated by self-interest, self-indulgence, and a false sense of self-sufficiency pursue selfish ambition for the purpose of self-glorification.

Many said selfishness was the flaw of our modern age; but then self-conceit emerged from a corner of the deepest hell to join selfishness.

Vanity well fed is benevolent. Vanity hungry is spiteful.

Where pride begins, love ceases.

It's pride, plain and simple, that keeps me from giving God all the glory and keeping some of it for myself. It is a battle we all fight in some form or another, some of us daily or even hourly.