Pride becomes the blanket transgression that conceals the rest of our sins, allowing us to remain blind to them.

Alisa Hope Wagner
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  1. I would always rather be happy than dignified. - Unknown

  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

  3. Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names. It was love lashed by its own self that spoke. It was pride half slain that fluttered in the dust. It was my hunger for your love... - Kahlil Gibran

  4. It often occurs that pride and selfishness are muddled with strength and independence. They are neither equal nor similar; in fact, they are polar opposites. A coward may be so cowardly that he masks his weakness with some false personification of power. He is afraid... - Criss Jami

  5. You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner." (Elizabeth Bennett) - Jane Austen

More Quotes By Alisa Hope Wagner
  1. Children are born with a desire to have meaning. Give them Jesus, and they will have it eternally.

  2. Sometimes God's sudden turn in your life feels like a detour, but in actuality it is the straightest way to your destiny!

  3. It's better to have no control and be in the center of God's plan for your life than have total control and be completely lost to your destiny.

  4. We must all cultivate our own creativity because we each have a God-given imagination that has the ability to bless generations and eternity.

  5. At any moment we can demonstrate our faith by taking action that shows our belief in God's promises!

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