I hate pride and arrogance! (Proverbs 8:13)
The Lord detests all the proud of heart. Be sure of this: They will not go unpunished.
A man may be very zealous and painstaking in preaching and all the while pride is the master whom he serves, though in God's livery.
It is hard starving this sin of pride it can live on almost anything!
Nothing is so sacred, but pride will profane it.
So far as pride prevails, the proud man prays and preaches to be thought good by others to enthrone himself, rather than Christ, in the opinion and hearts of his hearers.
Pride loves to climb up, not as Zaccheus, to see Christ but so that others may see himself.
"God resists the proud" (James 4:6). The humble man may have Satan at his right hand to oppose him; but the proud man shall find God Himself there to resist him. We must either lay self aside or God will lay us aside.
A proud sinner and a humble Savior will never agree. Christ is humble and lowly, and so resists the proud but gives grace to the humble.
If God, says Augustine, did not spare the angels when they grew proud; will He spare you who are but dust and sin?
[William Gurnall]
