Francis Schaeffer Quotes

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.

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

Holy humility confounds pride and all the men of this world and all things that are in the world.

Catch {a man} at the moment when he is really poor in spirit and smuggle into his mind the gratifying reflection, "By jove, I'm being humble," and almost immediately pride - pride at his own humility - will appear.

As long as you are proud, you cannot know God.

When one becomes conscious of his great humility, he has already lost it. When one begins boasting of his humility, it has already become pride-the antithesis of humility.

And when your soul becometh great, then doth it become haughty, and in your sublimity there is wickedness.

A man is never so proud as when striking an attitude of humility.

our quarrels with the world are like our quarrels with God: no matter how right we are, we are wrong.

Is there any vanity greater than the vanity of those who believe themselves without it?

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

Whatever makes us feel superior to other people, whatever tempts us to convey a sense of superiority, that is the gravity of our sinful nature, not grace.

The vanities of all others may gradually die out, but the vanity of a saint regarding his sainthood is hard indeed to wear away.

We are never, never so much in danger of being proud as when we think we are humble.

No man who says, 'I'm as good as you,' believes it. He would not say it if he did.

Where is your heart? Is your heart with God? Is it with your own ego or your lust? Is it with your greed, your pride, envy, or your resentment? This is a time where you can go into yourself and ask: Where is my heart? Ramadan is a time to give the heart back to the One who possesses the hearts.

People who parade their holiness are operating dangerously close to the sin of pride.

What he says, even on his knees, about his own sinfulness is all parrot talk. At bottom, he still believes he has run up a very favorable credit-balance in the Enemy's ledger by allowing himself to be converted, and thinks that he is showing great humility and condescension in going to church with these 'smug', commonplace neighbors at all.

A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink a little bit of the writer's pride in having given up his pride.

Many a peacock hides his peacock tail from all eyes--and calls it his pride.

It is a fault, not a virtue, to wish your humility recognized and applauded.

The moment we glorify ourselves, since there is room for one glory only in the universe, we set ourselves up as rivals to the Most High.

A man given to pride is usually proud of the wrong thing.

Do not believe that you alone can be right.The man who thinks that,The man who maintains that only he has the powerTo reason correctly, the gift to speak, the soul-A man like that, when you know him, turns out empty.

Pride leaves no room for grace.