"GOD Resists The Proud"

William Gurnall's choice excerpts on PRIDE
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"I hate pride and arrogance!" 

Proverbs 8:13

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"The LORD detests all the proud of heart.
 Be sure of this: They will not go 

unpunished." Proverbs 16:5

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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.

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It is hard starving this sin of pride--

it can live on almost anything!

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Nothing is so sacred, 

but pride will profane it.

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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.

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Pride loves to climb up, not as 

Zaccheus, to see CHRIST--

but so that others may see himself.

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"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.

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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.

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"If GOD," says Augustine, "did not 

spare the angels when they grew 

proud; will HE spare you--

who are but dust and sin?"

Gardiner Spring, "The Distinguishing Traits of Christian Character"

Chapter 11. EVANGELICAL HUMILITY