Showing posts with label pride. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pride. Show all posts

I am Full


full of self, life canvas
When you are full of yourself, nothing can fill you. Be an empty vessel so that God can fill you. ~author unknown 

The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell. ~Simone Weil 

A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you. ~C. S. Lewis 

Pride requires very costly food - its keeper's happiness. ~Charles Caleb Colton

Though the Lord is on high, he looks upon the lowly, but the proud he knows from afar. ~Psalm 138:6

Pride

swallow the pride artwork
Temper gets you into trouble. Pride keeps you there. ~author unknown

A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you. ~C. S. Lewis

The greatest obstacle to true reconciliation and peace is pride. Many of our relationships would have been healed, or would have prospered, if we knew how to swallow our pride, which someone beautifully described, as the only poison which, when swallowed, can cure! ~Fr. Jerry Orbos