Hubris Quotes

Hubris Quote of the day

Deeply convinced of the reality of the divine will, he (Lincoln) had no patience at all with any who were perfectly sure they knew the details of the divine will.

It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60).

Trying to be more than human one becomes less.

Kingdom of God will surely come upon someone if glory of man leaves him

Sweet wine makes drunk, sour wine (insult) is "tetelestai". Life is not about what we have done and become, but how God to be fully glorified.

But who names a starship the Icarus? What kind of man possess that much hubris, that he dares it to fall?

Whatever we have in the glory of man is "away". Those are just not enough before we go "home" to the glory of God.

Each era has the fatal hubris to believe that it has once and for all climbed to the top of the mountain and can see everything as it is, from the highest and most objective vantage point possible.

Yesterday I was clever, so I took the glory for me. Today He makes me wise, so I give the glory to Thee

Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite so good.

If we glorify God (not self) in everything we do then everything on earth will glorify God.

No egoism is so insufferable as the Christian with regard to his soul.

Consider an achievement accidental if it is not coupled with modesty. Because if the achiever had endeavoured for it, it would certainly have killed their pride.

Arrogant men with knowledge make more noise from their mouth than making a sense from their mind.

If pimps and thieves were invariably sentenced, all decent people would get to thinking they themselves were constantly innocent.

The real question is why you still believe in that invisible god when a true one stands before you?

Feelings of superiority always stem from an illusion.

When we don’t put the brakes on our self-absorption, we have nothing stopping us from total self-destruction. We become the fruits of our actions.

Every medicine is vain.

People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.

I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.

Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease.

Beware of puny two-legged creatures claiming to be made in the image of God.

We can never be gods, after all--but we can become something less than human with frightening ease.

Men and women believed and proclaimed God was firmly on their side – and easy and shallow assertion that reduced God to a sort of house deity.

It is not reputation, fame, success or religiosity that glorifies God, it's slavery.

Most humans turn away from God simply for the privilege of deluding themselves into thinking they are the masters of their own destiny.

Air travelers, of course, are famous for their hubris. They carry on too many bags and use the restroom when the seat-belt sign is on.

The scientists have given [modern man] the impression that there is nothing he cannot know, and false propagandists have told him that there is nothing he cannot have.

Unbridled talent can handicap you with hubris.

The truth posed a great dilemma for a man who always had to be right, and yet, for all his grandeur, was often wrong.

Hubris calls for nemesis, and in one form or another it's going to get it, not as a punishment from outside but as the completion of a pattern already started.

If you ever find yourself coming out of a time machine, run. Run away as fast you can. Don't stop. Don't try to talk. Nothing good can come out of it." narrator Charles Yu, not author Charles Yu p19

Why should there be some sort of virtue always attributed to a frank admission of vice?

The exegetical foundations would appear to be weak, and one shouldn’t build huge theological edifices, no matter how splendid or consistent, on weak foundations.

Best not to take, yet doubt its strength, A leash with Demons at its length.

It doesn’t take long for your fortunes to turn. One second you’re fluttery as a bird, the next you’re on the ground with your wings clipped.

It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel. -Anatole France, novelist, essayist, Nobel laureate (1844-1924)

Beware ! Heart is too small to feel happy but soul is too big to take glory

Don't try to create the world in your image-that was God's mistake.

Glory of the world makes life meaningless. Glory of God fulfills it.

It takes a whole government to really screw up a war. A dollop of American hubris goes a long way too.

Beware ! Discipline goes to two different directions : success and self glory. Self glory is the biggest failure of life.

To wish to withstand the Holy Spirit would be the one unforgivable sin.

Note from Alien cookbook: “The more intelligent the human is, the better it tastes.

As with many tragedies, our story opens in a moment of triumph.

f you are too good to look after God’s trash, you are not good enough to look after God’s treasure.

The most regretful behavior always leaches from a wound to our sanctimonious pride.

Men who thought of themselves as gods fell the farthest, and the hardest.

Beware of that demon called 'Changing The World'.