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“The proud do not change to improve, but defend their position by rationalizing. Repentance means change, and it takes a humble person to change.”
Source: The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson
“The proud hate pride in others.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack
“The proud human heart is there revealed. We insist on paying for what we have done. We cannot stand the humiliation of acknowledging our bankruptcy and allowing somebody else to pay for us. The notion that this somebody else should be God himself is just too much to take. We would rather perish than repent, rather lose ourselves than humble ourselves.”
“The proud make every man their adversary by pitting their intellects, opinions, works, wealth, talents, or any other worldly measuring device against others.”
“The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“The proud man counts his newspaper clippings, the humble man his blessings.”
“The proud man hath no God; the envious
man hath no neighbor; the angry man
hath not himself.”
Source: Contemplations on the Historical Passages of the Old and New Testaments
“The proud man is forsaken of God.”
“The proud man, then, is an extreme in respect of the greatness of his claims, but a mean in respect of the rightness of them; for he claims what is accordance with his merits, while the others go to excess or fall short.”
“The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.”
“The proud spirit of the original owners of these vast prairies inherited through centuries of fierce and bloody wars for their possession, lingered last in the bosom of Sitting Bull. With his fall the nobility of the Redskin is extinguished, and what few are left are a pack of whining curs who lick the hand that smites them.”
“The proud think that their opinion alone is right. They cannot see the good points of others, as the humble do, and appreciate their opinions. That is why there is such disagreement, strife and quarrelling and even irrreconciliation in families and in other groups.”
“The proud will sooner lose than ask their way.”
“The proud wish God would agree with them. They are not interested in changing their opinions to agree with God's.”
“The proud, the cold untroubled heart of stone, that never mused on sorrow but its own.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Campbell, Goldsmith and Gray: With Memoirs of the Authors
“The proudest moment for [a teacher of leaders] is seeing not what students learn but what they do.”
“The proudest moment in life is knowing the battles and scares of life you endured are now your testimony that you didn't give up!
Give yourself some grace and be proud of your journey!”
“The proudest thing I can claim is that I am from Abilene.”
“The Proustian aquarium: grotesque and gorgeous fish drifting with languid fins through a subaqueous medium of pale violet polluted ink.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“The prove that you are converting your time is the product that is produced”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“The proverb answers where the sermon fails.”
Source: Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside
“The proverb has it that Hunger is the best cook. The Law makes afflicted consciences hungry for Christ. Christ tastes good to them. Hungry hearts appreciate Christ. Thirsty souls are what Christ wants. He invites them: Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Christ's benefits are so precious that He will dispense them only to those who need them and really desire them.”
Source: Commentary on Galatians
“The proverb is something musty.”
“The proverb says that 'The answer to a fool is silence'. Observation, however, indicates that almost any other answer will have the same effect in the long run.”
Source: Reflections
“The proverb says that Providence protects children and idiots. This is really true. I know because I have tested it.”
Source: Mark Twain's Book for Bad Boys and Girls
“The proverb says, "Born lucky, always lucky," and I am very superstitious. As a small boy I was notoriously lucky. It was usual for one or two of our lads (per annum) to get drowned in the Mississippi or in Bear Creek, but I was pulled out in a 2/3 drowned condition 9 times before I learned to swim, and was considered to be a cat in disguise.”
Source: Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)
“The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.”
Source: The second sin
“The proverbe saith that many a smale maketh a grate.”
“The proverbial Englishman, we know from old chronicler Froissart, takes his pleasures sadly, and the Englishwoman goes a step further and takes her pleasures in sadness itself.”
Source: The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
“The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for an entire lecture, and then finish up by rattling off a string of verbs by which their audience, for whom the stack had long since lost its coherence, would be totally nonplussed, are told, is an excellent example of linguistic recursion.”
“The proverbial notion of historical distance consists in our having lost ninety-five of every hundred original facts, so the remaining ones can be arranged however one likes.”
Source: Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses
“The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.”
Source: Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn
“The proverbial thirteenth chime of the clock - is not only wrong itself, but calls into question everything that came before it.”
“The proverbial wisdom of the populace in the street, on the roads, and in the markets instructs the ear of him who studies man more fully than a thousand rules ostentatiously displayed.”
“The proverbist knows nothing of the two sides of a question. He knows only the roundness of answers.”
Source: the Bourgeois Poet
“The Proverbs 31 woman is a star not because of what she does but how she does it—with valor. So do your thing. If it’s refurbishing old furniture—do it with valor. If it’s keeping up with your two-year-old—do it with valor. If it’s fighting against human trafficking . . . leading a company . . . or getting other people to do your work for you—do it with valor. Take risks. Work hard. Make mistakes. Get up the next morning. And surround yourself with people who will cheer you on.”
Source: A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband 'Master'
“The Proverbs 31 woman is introduced as a 'woman hayil' the same Hebrew word used for Boaz and signifies 'strength' and 'power' like that of an 'elite warrior similar to the hero of the Homeric epic.' The meaning, however, gets lost in translation, for whenever hayil applies to a woman in the Bible, translators have opted for softer English words ('virtuous,' 'excellent,' 'capable,' or 'noble character'). These words don't begin to do justice to the meaning, for in reality 'it may well be that a woman of this caliber had all the attributes of her male counterpart.' She is a woman of valor--an apt description of an ezer.”
Source: Half the Church: Recapturing God's Global Vision for Women
“The Proverbs 31 woman is not the model of a perfect woman. She is the model of a committed woman under God.”
“The Providence granted me with the ability to think, and thinking unveiled to me that, sadly, there was no providence.”
“The providence of God does not relieve us of our human responsibility: it doesn't call for inactivity, it calls for activity.”
“The Providence of God is like Hebrew words-it can be read only backwards.”
“The providence of God is subordinate to creation; and it is, therefore, necessary that it should not impinge against creation, which it would do, were it to inhibit or hinder the use of free will in man. . .”
Source: The Works of James Arminius, D. D., Formerly Professor of Divinity in the University of Leyden
“The Providence of God is the great protector of our life and usefulness, and under the divine care we are perfectly safe from danger.”
Source: Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon
“The Providence that watches over the affairs of men works out of their mistakes, at times, a healthier issue than could have been accomplished by their wisest forethought.”
“The Provider
Several crows were lined up along the ridge of a quite ordinary house. 'These ridge poles are a good idea,' said a young one. 'Who dreamed it up?' 'This place of rest is a fortuitous gift from the moon,' said a raven who was mixing with the hoi polloi today. 'The moon is a relative of the roc, a distant cousin of mine. Believe me,' he said, stretching his wings out to their full advantage and pushing the crows at the end off balance, so several leaped into the wind and cried, 'caw' . . . 'it depends on your original stock. I've got a piece of the roc.' The moon rose spectral and drained, a gossamer imprint of her nighttime self, a reminder of crystal fracture, the load of swinging primitive stones, the ancient hairy arms with slingshots. A sudden explosion and the sky was defined with flapping and cawing. 'What was that?' cried the young one who was addicted to awe. 'Who knows?' replied the raven. 'Often the moon demands a sacrifice. As a close relative, it is now my duty to go and eat the meat. For it is said, nothing is wasted; nothing is without purpose.' And the raven rose and flew toward the hunters.”
Source: In the Next Galaxy
“The province of faith begins where probabilities cease and sight and sense fail.”
“The province of philosophy is not so much to prevent calamities befalling as to demonstrate that they are blessings when they have taken place.”
Source: The Complete Works of Ernest Bramah (Including Max Carrados Mysteries & Kai Lung Fantasy Series): The Secret of the League, The Coin of Dionysius, The Game Played In the Dark, The Bravo of London, The Tilling Shaw Mystery, The Secret of Dunstan's Tower, The Missing Witness Sensationäó_
“The Province of Sindh (now a state in Pakistan) is bordered on the east by the Thar desert of India and in the west by the mountains of Baluchistan; it boasts of the port city of Karachi as well as the remains of the Indus Valley civilization. Its history is chequered and is best known by the brief message ‘PECCAVI’ sent by its British conqueror Charles Napier to his superiors in the Bombay Presidency. Tracing its origin to the Indus Valley settlements of Mohen-jo-daro (itself a Sindhi word meaning the ‘gate/hillock of the dead’), Sindh was part of various Hindu kingdoms up to 712 AD when Mohammed bin Kasim conquered it and established Muslim rule. Various Muslim dynasties ruled over Sindh undisturbed until 1843 when the British decided that its strategic importance necessitated its conquest. The colonial policies of land and education tipped the economic and social balance. The Hindu minority of Sindh which had always been rich but unobtrusive, now cornered powerful positions in the nineteenth century, evoking a strong feeling among Sindhi Muslim leaders that they had not received their just desserts.”
Source: Unbordered Memories : Sindhi Stories Of Partition
“The province of the soul is large enough to fill up every cranny of your time, and leave you much to answer for if one wretch be damned by your neglect.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)
“The province’s traditions of hospitality are all its own, and the death-rate at banquets is appalling.
You never know what may not happen at a banquet in Kashgar, and each of our official hosts had prudently brought his own bodyguard.”
Source: News from Tartary