The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility...According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere flea bites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.
Quotes about self-conceit (12 Quotes)
I was not really angry: I felt for him all the time, and longed to be reconciled; but I determined he should make the first advances, or at least show some signs of an humble and contrite spirit, first; for, if I began, it would only minister to his self-conceit, increase his arrogance, and quite destroy the lesson I wanted to give him.
Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.
Repentance means unlearning all the self-conceit and self -will that we have been training ourselves into... It means killing part of yourself, under-going a kind of death.
I remain attached to the Lord's Feet, and eradicate self-conceit from within
The vice I am talking about is Pride or Self-Conceit and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility. You may remember, when I was talking about sexual morality, I warned you that the centre of Christian morals did not lie there. Well, now we have come to the centre. According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastity, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere flea-bites in comparison it was through Pride that the devil became the devil Pride leads to every other vice it is the complete anti-God state of mind. (Clive Staples
Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
Woman's dearest delight is to wound Man's self-conceit, though Man's dearest delight is to gratify hers
The eyes which look upon corruption do not know the Love and the Fear of God. Conquering self-conceit, one obtains the Name.
The self-conceit of the young is the great source of those dangers to which they are exposed.
We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.
Everything happens according to the Lord's Will what can the poor people do Attached to self-conceit and duality, they have forgotten their Lord and Master.