Saint Augustine Quotes

The first and most fundamental issue of sin is pride.

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

Let pride go afore, shame will follow after.

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

Pride creates a noise within us which makes the quiet voice of the Spirit hard to hear. And soon, in our vanity, we no longer even listen for it. We can come quickly to think we don't need it.

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

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

Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.

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

Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion. I repeat: Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion.

Sins are timeless. Sins are an everyday reality for every one. Sin has been in existence since the beginning of man, since Adam and Eve. It will always be pertinent.

Perverted pride is a great misfortune in men; but pride in its original function, for which God created it, is indispensable to a proper manhood.

The noblest character is stained by the addition of pride.

Pride is when sinful human beings aspire to the status and position of God and refuse to acknowledge their dependence upon Him.

There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

Pride does not look up to God and care about what is right. It looks sideways to man and argues who is right. Pride is manifest in the spirit of contention. Was it not through pride that the devil became the devil? Christ wanted to serve. The devil wanted to rule. Christ wanted to bring men to where He was. The devil wanted to be above men. Christ removed self as the force in His perfect life. It was not my will, but thine be done

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

It's pride, plain and simple, that keeps me from giving God all the glory and keeping some of it for myself. It is a battle we all fight in some form or another, some of us daily or even hourly.

He whose pride oppresses the humble may perhaps be humbled, but will never be humble.

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.

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

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

When they get their ego involved, people do things they shouldn't do.

Egotism, pride, etc. must be given up.