Christopher Hitchens Quotes

Assumption of superiority by any person over any other is a sin against God and man.

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.

The first and most fundamental issue of sin is pride.

Patriotism is a little like strength. If you've got it, you don't have to wear it on your sleeve.

God is an Englishman

We’ve been an arrogant country.

Are they happy with our God? Are they happy with our prophet? Are they happy with our leader? Never. I don't care about rest of the world. I care about my country.

He who thinks he lives without sin puts aside not sin, but pardon.

God has nothing to say to the self-righteous.

Self-righteousness is the fruit of a low view of God's law and a lite view of your own sin.

It's so childish, "greatest country in the world." It's like saying, "I have the greatest wife in the world. Not just the one best suited for me, the greatest wife in the world. And if you could have my wife, you'd kill your wife."

Patriotism can flourish only where racism and nationalism are given no quarter. We should never mistake patriotism for nationalism. A patriot is one who loves his homeland. A nationalist is one who scorns the homelands of others.

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

The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others. The impression somehow prevails that the true believer, particularly the religious individual, is a humble person. The truth is that the surrendering and humbling of the self breed pride and arrogance. The true believer is apt to see himself as one of the chosen, the salt of the earth, a prince disguised in meekness, who is destined to inherit this earth and the kingdom of heaven, too. He who is not of his faith is evil; he who will not listen shall perish.

No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.

Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others.

If pride is a sin ... moral pride is the greatest sin.

To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote.

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.

I'm an American, I don't have to see something to know it's stupid!

Pride eradicates all vices but itself.

There never can have been, and never can be, and there never shall be any sin without pride.

The sin which makes you sad and repentant is more liked by Allah than the good deed which turns you arrogant.

I find that we are all such sinners that it is better to leave the judging to God.

The person who loves his life will lose it: it could not be otherwise, for to love one's life is a fundamental denial of God's sovereignty, of God's rights, and a brazen elevation of self to the apogee of one's perception, and therefore an idolatrous focus on self, which is the heart of all sin