Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
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"As pride sometimes is hid under humility, idleness is often covered
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Dec 15, 2008
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"Humility, or being humble, is the defining characteristic of an unpretentious and modest person, someone who does not think that he or she is better or more important than others. The opposite of humility is pride.
The term "humility" is derived from the Latin word
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Contributed by Donnie Martin on Sep 21, 2003
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“Pride is the only disease known to man that makes everyone sick except the one who has it”
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Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jul 14, 2002
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SUBTLETY OF PRIDE
Paul W. Powell once observed: “Pride is so subtle that if we aren’t careful we’ll be proud of our humility. When this happens our goodness becomes badness. Our virtues become vices. We can easily become like the Sunday School teacher who, having told the story of the Pharisee and
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Contributed by Wayne Major on Mar 16, 2002
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“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;
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Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 24, 2010
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HUMILITY?
Dr. Harry Ironside was once convicted about his lack of humility. A friend recommended as a remedy, that he march through the streets of Chicago wearing a sandwich board, shouting the scripture verses on the board for all to hear. Dr. Ironside agreed to this venture and when he returned
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QUOTES ON PRIDE
Medieval theologian Thomas Aquinas said of pride: "Inordinate self-love is the cause of every sin ... the root of pride is found to consist in man not being, in some way, subject to God and His rule."
"A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 21, 2005
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THE DISEASE OF PRIDE
“Pride is the only disease known to man that makes everyone sick except the one who has it”
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Contributed by John Scott on Aug 15, 2014
Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad marches — or runs — to the beat of a different drummer. The 29-year-old French athlete was up to his old tricks Thursday. The two-time Olympic silver medalist was on the verge of winning his third straight title in the 3,000-meter steeplechase at the European
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Augustine on pride:
Every proud man heeds himself and he who pleases himself seems great to himself. But he who pleases himself pleases a fool for
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Contributed by Brian Harvison on Oct 3, 2023
You can even have pride in the fact that you aren’t proud
• An Amish farmer put on a new pair of overalls
• Of course the Amish are famous for their simplicity
• So, as he was shaving his mustache one morning he stepped back and admired his new clothes in the mirror
• He said This will never do,
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Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 27, 2007
Dwight Lehman once heard a missionary tell how he was trying to do translation work in a particular tribe and found it hard to translate the word "pride," or at least the concept. He finally came to the idea to use their word or words for the ears’ being too far apart. In other words, he conveyed
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