John Irving Quotes

The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began.

God has nothing to say to the self-righteous.

Pride is the king of vices...it is the first of the pallbearers of the soul...other vices destroy only their opposite virtues, as wantonness destroys chastity; greed destroys temperance; anger destroys gentleness; but pride destroys all virtues.

Pride is the deadliest of sins, but I was bursting with pride.

Pride is the ground in which all the other sins grow, and the parent from which all the other sins come.

The demon of pride was born with us; and it will not die one hour before us.

When you're thinking, please remember this: excessive pride is a familiar sin, but a man may just as easily frustrate the will of God through excessive humility.

We should take heed of pride; it is a sin that turned angels into devils.

Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.

Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church.

In the scriptures there is no such thing as righteous pride. It is always considered as a sin.

I look upon pride as a sin.

As I read the scriptures, it appears that those who receive the Savior's strongest reproach are often those who hold themselves in high esteem because of their wealth, influence, or perceived righteousness.

Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.

The first and most fundamental issue of sin is pride.

These are the meats to abstain from- others' wealth, others' wives, slander, envy, covetousness and pride.

The second you think that all your good fortune is a product of your virtue, you become highly judgmental, lacking empathy, totally without self-awareness, arrogant, stupid - I mean, all the stuff that our ruling class is.

For those of us on this planet who have never done wrong and are always right and are just down right 100% perfect all the time, life can be hard.

Other sins find their vent in the accomplishment of evil deeds, whereas pride lies in wait for good deeds, to destroy them.

Pride erects a little kingdom of its own, and acts as sovereign in it.

A cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to Hell than a prostitute.

Beware of the virtue which a man boasts is his.

Pride is both a virtue and a vice.

In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and arrogance.

Let us watch against PRIDE in every shapepride of intellect, pride of wealth, pride in our own goodness.