Pastoral Resources

We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards.

The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful... or fun for that matter.

There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

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

As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion.

Take pride in exactly what it is you do and remember it's okay to fail as long as you don't give up.

I hate pride, but if I were going to be proud of anything it would have to be something I'd done myself. Race pride is kind of stupid.

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.

I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.

The fighter loses more than his pride in the fight; he loses part of his future. He's a step closer to the slum he came from.

Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

Let's stand up. Let's speak with pride about our morals and our values and redouble our effort to elect more conservative Republicans.

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

The response to Pride has been so overwhelming. I mean, people have really loved it. And it's so rewarding because we had such a fun time making that film, and it was made with so much heart, that it's lovely that people seem to be responding in kind to that.