D. A. Carson Quotes

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

To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

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

The worst thing is that we live in a contaminated moral environment. We fell morally ill because we became used to saying something different from what we thought. Concepts such as love, friendship, compassion, humility or forgiveness lost their depth and dimension.

As Angelo discovered in Measure for Measure, nothing corrupts like virtue.

There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.

None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

One may be humble out of pride.

Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong.

False modesty can be worse than arrogance.

The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.

What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.

... a moral skunk .... [who has] debauched America ...

Prosperity often leads to pride, which leads to sin.

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.

Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.

Wisdom is corrupted by ambition, even when the quality of the ambition is intellectual. For ambition, even of this quality, is but a form of self-love.

Those who make virtue their profession are the ruin of virtue.

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.

A man may be humble through vainglory.

The truth posed a great dilemma for a man who always had to be right, and yet, for all his grandeur, was often wrong.

Selfishness is much more than an ordinary problem because it activates all the cardinal sins! It is the detonator in the breaking of the Ten Commandments.

Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone, and a good deed that calls itself by tender names becomes the parent to a curse.

There are some who affect a want of affectation, and flatter themselves that they are above flattery; they are proud of being thought extremely humble, and would go round the world to punish those who thought them capable of revenge; they are so satisfied of the suavity of their own temper that they would quarrel with their dearest benefactor only for doubting it.