C. J. Mahaney Quotes

Pride, on the other hand, is the mother of all sins, and the original sin of lucifer.... An instrument strung, but preferring to play itself because it thinks it knows the tune better than the Musician

In the fallen there is danger of pride and vainglory, since they prefer their own judgment to the judgment of everyone else, usurping what is not their own by setting themselves up as judges in their own cause when the rightful judge is their superior.

In what way can a man believing in God cease believing due to his personal vanity? There are only two ways. The man should either begin to think himself a rival of God, or he may begin to believe himself to be God.

Pride is at the bottom of a great many errors and corruptions, and even of many evil practices, which have a great show and appearance of humility.

You know what ego stands for: Edging Out God!

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

To be vain of one's rank or place is to show that one is below it.

The greatest of all fools is the proud fool--who is at the mercy of every fool he meets.

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

When you start believing you're something special, then you're not going to be striving to move forward.

The difference between God and Reggie Jackson is that God doesn't think he's Reggie Jackson.

I am a God.

Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.

Vanity is my favourite sin.

I look upon pride as a sin.

The minute I get a big head and start acting like the big man on campus, it's all downhill from there.

I think people who lack humility are really annoying.

Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the sin, but the heart, or core, is still missing. The central feature of pride is enmity - enmity toward God and enmity toward our fellowmen.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and everyone who humbles himself will be exalted.

I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.

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

I said I was 'The Greatest,' I never said I was the smartest!

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

If I was sharp in every area, I might be too big-headed or something.

I thought I was God's gift to mankind and the greatest Irishman since George Best.