Dwight L. Moody Quotes

Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.

It is much easier for me to imagine a praying murderer, a praying prostitute, than a vain person praying. Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.

The real test of being in the presence of God is, that you either forget about yourself altogether or see yourself as a small, dirty object.

No man can put on the robes of Christ’s righteousness till he has taken off his own.

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.

In my younger years my dedication may have expressed itself egotistically.

Clearly I've got an ego.

I never saw movies I was in because my mom told me that would be prideful, being stuck on yourself.

If God were to appear in my room, obviously I would be in awe, but I don't think I would be humble. I might cry, but I think he would dig me like crazy.

The only way to get under me is to get over yourself.

If America is too arrogant, too prideful to repent, it's not the kind of country that God wants it to be.

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.

The Bible makes it clear that self-righteousness is the premier enemy of the Gospel.

Symbolically, what the rabbis say is that at Passover, what we have to do is try to get rid of our hot air - our pride, our feeling that we are the most important people in the whole entire world and that everything should revolve round us.

Perhaps nothing helps us make the movement from our little selves to a larger world than remembering God in gratitude. Such a perspective puts God in view in all of life, not just in the moments we set aside for worship or spiritual disciplines. Not just in the moments when life seems easy.

This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though perhaps adorned with greater gifts, and endowments.

My ego and my vanities have nothing to do with comedy.

I have altogether failed to comprehend as to how undue pride or vain-gloriousness could ever stand in the way of a man believing in God.

The No. 1 thing you should know about me: I've always tried to put God first in my life, and I'm the first to admit I often have failed because I'm too proud and too stubborn.

You may be modest and un-egotistical in your life; I'm quite ordinary. But I play big egotistical parts.

I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.

Deflating inflated egos is so important to God that He offers to help.

If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.

The law stops every man's mouth. God will have a man humble himself down on his face before Him, with not a word to say for himself. Then God will speak to him, when he owns that he is a sinner, and gets rid of all his own righteousness.

You know what ego stands for: Edging Out God!