Pride is often used as a way to protect our hearts and to hide the truth. Pride causes us to shut down and build walls.

Heather Bixler
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  2. It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride. - John Ruskin

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More Quotes By Heather Bixler
  1. The only way to prevent pride from taking root in our heart and our life is to embrace a life filled with faith, understanding, and forgiveness.

  2. Pride is often used as a way to protect our hearts and to hide the truth. Pride causes us to shut down and build walls.

  3. God didn't send His only Son to die on the cross so that we can hide behind our guilt, shame, and pride.

  4. Our weaknesses may never go away but when we give them to God, His grace will turn them into something beautiful...

  5. Our pride keeps us from breaking our pride. Our pride tells us we don't have pride issues.

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