Spurgeon on Pride
I hate pride and arrogance!" Proverbs 8:13 There is nothing into which the heart of man so easily falls, as PRIDE; and there is no vice which is more frequently and more emphatically condemned in Scripture! Pride is a groundless thing. It stands on bubbles , which soon must burst beneath its feet! We have reasons for almost everything--but we have no reasons for pride. Pride is a thing which should be unnatural to us, for we have nothing to be proud of! Pride is a foolish thing, for it brings no profit with it. There is no wisdom in a self-exaltation . Other vices have some excuse, for men seem to gain by them. Avarice, pleasure, lust--have some plea. But the man who is proud, sells his soul cheaply! For one puff of empty wind, one word of sweet applause, the soul is gone! Pride wins no crown. Men never honor it, not even the menial slaves of earth; for all men look down on the proud man , and think him less than themselves. Pride is the maddest thing that can exis
