![Theologians consider that it was the sin of pride, the sinful thought conceived in an instant: non serviam: I will not serve. That instant was his [Lucifer's] ruin.](/assets/img/quote-photos/theologians-consider-that-it-was-the-sin-of-pride-the-sinful-thought-conceived-i.jpg)
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pride frustration ego
It would be an endless battle if it were all up to ego because it does not destroy and is not destroyed by itself It is like a wave it makes itself up, it rushes forward getting nowhere really it crashes, withdraws and makes itself up again pulls itself together with pride towers with pride rushes forward into imaginary conquest crashes in frustration withdraws with remorse and repentance pulls itself together with new resolution Agnes Martin
pride mars apollo
I guess those of us who have been with NASA ... kind of understand the tremendous excitement and thrills and celebrations and national pride that went with the Apollo program is just something you're not going to create again, probably until we go to Mars. Alan Shepard
pride sickness breaking-down
There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood. Charles Dickens
pride men becoming
There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so. Charles Caleb Colton
pride keepers
Pride requires very costly food-its keeper's happiness.
pride self attractive
Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self; but, unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but at all points repels.
pride may charity
Whenever we find ourselves more inclined to persecute than to persuade, we may then be certain that our zeal has more of pride in it than of charity.
pride common-sense prudence
Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.
pride cutting animal
The most ridiculous of all animals is a proud priest; he cannot use his own tools without cutting his own fingers.
ruins enough ifs
If you continue to improve a product enough, you'll eventually ruin it. David Pogue
ruins welcome said
Welcome, Ruin said, to godhood. Brandon Sanderson
ruins frontiers
The frontiers of the future will be the ruins of the unsustainable. Bruce Sterling
ruins century 21st-century
The ruins of the unsustainable are the 21st century’s frontier.
ruins pillars fame
It is a wretched thing to rest upon the fame of others, lest, the supporting pillar being removed, the superstructure should collapse in ruin. Juvenal
ruins reputation made
I've never made any horrible, horrible movies. If you don't ruin your reputation, you can always get work. Bill Murray
ruins helping sometimes
For sometimes you can't help but crave some ruin in what you love. Chang-Rae Lee
ruins problem one-thing
Fear is one thing that can ruin everything. It's the greatest problem. Boman Irani
ruins morality
We moralize among ruins. Benjamin Disraeli
sing
We want 'em to sing with us. We want 'em to sing out. Sharon Scott
singing maps music-is
Folk Music is the map of singing. Alan Lomax
single lonely loneliness
The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely. Charlotte Bronte
sin shock sophistication
I'm an old sinner. Nothing shocks me. Charlie Chaplin
sin stills non-conformist
My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist.
sincere substitutes ardent
There is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent, and sincere earnestness.
sin shows sinner
We must show sympathy with sinners, but not with their sins. Charles Spurgeon
sin found casts
He casts our sins behind His back, He blots them out; He says that though they be sought for, they shall not be found.
since
Since I can't write the greatest American novel, I'm going to write the longest American novel. Thomas Steinbeck