Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle.

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

You always want your people to be proud of what you have accomplished.

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

Issues are never simple. One thing I’m proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

When I look back on what I did for the Left, I’m in a small way quite proud of some of it – I only wish I’d done more.

In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive.

I groan daily under a body of sin and corruption. Oh for the time when I shall drop this flesh, and be free from sin!

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today!

Sometimes we look at gay being a bigger sin than being proud or not telling the truth. I don’t think God categorizes sins.

Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects.

There is no sin except stupidity.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.

The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.

The Israelites‘ slavery in Egypt is the equivalent of our slavery to sin. God sent Moses to deliver them from bondage, and He sent Jesus Christ to set us free.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

I speak to you only as an American who happens to be an American Negro and one who is proud of that heritage. We ask for nothing special. We ask only that we be permitted to compete on an even basis, and if we are not worthy, then the competition shall, per se, eliminate us.

When you are full of pride on the inside, it makes you stiff, stubborn, and creates strife with others.

Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man’s idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought.

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man’s pride in his work.

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

We are rarely proud when we are alone.

Sin is geographical.

None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

I see Americans of every party, every background, every faith who believe that we are stronger together: black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American; young, old; gay, straight; men, women, folks with disabilities, all pledging allegiance under the same proud flag to this big, bold country that we love. That’s what I see. That’s the America I know!

The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.

I realized quickly what Mandela and Tambo meant to ordinary Africans. It was a place where they could come and find a sympathetic ear and a competent ally, a place where they would not be either turned away or cheated, a place where they might actually feel proud to be represented by men of their own skin color.

It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working at ten dollars per month) have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

Now I will say this to every sinner, though he should think himself to be the worst sinner who ever lived: cry to the Lord and seek Him while He may be found. A throne of grace is a place fitted for you. By simple faith, go to your Savior, for He is the throne of grace.

I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God’s will.

By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

Being a Puerto Rican artist, I support all kinds of projects that are developed on my beautiful island that in some way or another put our Puerto Rican flag up.

We are America, second to none, and we own the finish line. Don’t forget it.

My goal is just to be respected as a man when I walk down the street with my family. I don’t care what your job is, you’re not gonna talk down to me, you’re not gonna try to get a rise out of me. I’m a man first. And in establishing that, some interesting things have happened.

I would honestly say that with all the awards and all the other things that I’ve done in my life, Dollywood is one of the greatest dreams that I’ve ever had come true – I am so proud of that I can’t even begin to tell you, Dollywood is real special to me.

The boys know they’re from Southeast Asia, and they have their food and their music and their friends, and they have a pride particular to them.

Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

The reason why I am proud of my part in the punk movement is that I think it really did implant a message that was already there. The hippies told it to me, but punk made it something cool for people to stand up for, which is that we do not believe government, that we are against government.

The biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you. That happened when my Bobby was in his championship Little League game. He really showed me something. Struck out three times. Made an error that lost the game. Parents were throwing things at our car and swearing at us as we drove off. Gosh, I was proud.

I didn’t want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that’s a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I’m proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.

I am happy and proud to play for my country and my club Mohun Bagan.

I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I’m not ashamed of anything.

One of the things people don’t really recognise about the similarities between country and hip-hop is that they’re celebrations of pride in a lifestyle.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

Professional farmworkers who know how to do a number of different jobs, whether it be pruning or picking or crafting, they see themselves as professionals, and they take a lot of pride in that work. They don’t see themselves as doing work that is demeaning.

Perhaps I can say that I am a bit astute, that I can adapt to circumstances, but it is also true that I am a bit naive. Yes, but the best summary, the one that comes more from the inside and I feel most true is this: I am a sinner whom the Lord has looked upon.

One of my proudest moments is I didn’t sell my soul for the sake of popularity.

Lord keep us all from sin. Teach us how to walk circumspectly; enable us to guard our minds against error of doctrine, our hearts against wrong feelings, and our lives against evil actions.

I believe the scripture says that being gay is a sin.

Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone… Bad food is fake food… food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people’s ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives.

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.