--LEGOUVE.
I think half the troubles for which men go slouching in prayer to God
are caused by their intolerable pride. Many of our cares are but a
morbid way of looking at our privileges. We let our blessings get
mouldy, and then call them curses.--BEECHER.
When pride and presumption walk before, shame and loss follow very
closely.--LOUIS XI.
How can there be pride in a contrite heart? Humility is the earliest
fruit of religion.--HOSEA BALLOU.
In beginning the world, if you don't wish to get chafed at every turn,
fold up your pride carefully, put it under lock and key, and only let
it out to air upon grand occasions. Pride is a garment all stiff
brocade outside, all grating sackcloth on the side next to the skin.
--LYTTON.
Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in
others, and to overlook in himself.--DR. JOHNSON.
An avenging God closely follows the haughty.--SENECA.
Charity feeds the poor, so does pride; charity builds an hospital, so
does pride. In this they differ: charity gives her glory to God; pride
takes her glory from man.--QUARLES.
The proud man is forsaken of God.--PLATO.
PROCRASTINATION.--Faith in to-morrow, instead of Christ, is Satan's
nurse for man's perdition.--REV. DR. CHEEVER.
To be always intending to live a new life, but never to find time to
set about it; this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking
and sleeping from one day and night to another, till he is starved and
destroyed.
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