Hubris Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Yesterday i was clever so i took the glory for me. Today HE makes me wise so i give the glory to HIM.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Every medicine is vain.

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

Unbridled talent can handicap you with hubris.

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.

Trying to be more than human one becomes less.

Beware of that demon called 'Changing The World'.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Feelings of superiority always stem from an illusion.