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“Whereas God, for reasons of His own, sometimes chooses to let the machine answer. 'The Supreme Being is unavailable to come to the phone at this time, but He wants you to know what your call is important to Him. In the meantime, for sins of pride, press one. For avarice, press two.”

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Author:Sherwood Anderson

“On the first of May, with my comrades of the catechism class, I laid lilac, chamomile and rose before the altar of the Virgin, and returned full of pride to show my blessed posy. My mother laughed her irreverent laugh and, looking at my bunch of flowers, which was bringing the may-bug into the sitting-room right under the lamp, she said: Do you suppose it wasn't already blessed before?”

“... it is seldom a medical man has true religious views--there is too much pride of intellect.”

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Author:George Eliot

“Tis certain that Morality is an indispensable Requisite of true Religion, and there can be none without it. But it would become the Pride and Ignorance of Pagans only, to magnify it, as the Whole of what is necessary.”

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Author:Samuel Richardson

“There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.”

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Book:Love and Justice: Selections from the Shorter Writings of Reinhold Niebuhr

Source: Love and Justice: Selections from the Shorter Writings of Reinhold Niebuhr

“A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.”

Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis

“Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.”

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Book:Joyful Christian

Source: Joyful Christian

“It's not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it's when you realize that you don't need any aid.”

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Author:William Faulkner