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Isaac Watts Quotes about Pride

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When I survey the wondrous cross On which the Prince of Glory died, My richest gain I count but loss, And pour contempt on all my pride.

When I survey the wondrous cross On which the Prince of Glory died, My richest gain I count but loss, And pour contempt on all my pride.

Isaac Watts
Humility, Pride, Loss
1707 Hymns and Spiritual Songs, 'Crucifixion to the World, by the Cross of Christ'.

Lord, what a thoughtless wretch was I, To mourn, and murmur and repine, To see the wicked placed on high, In pride and robes of honor shine. But oh, their end, their dreadful end, Thy sanctuary taught me so, On slipp'ry rocks I see them stand, And fiery billows roll below.

Isaac Watts
Pride, Power, Rocks
Thomas Hastings, Isaac Watts, William Patton (1836). “The Christian Psalmist: Or, Watts' Psalms and Hymns, with Copious Selections from Other Sources”, p.127

Learn good-humor, never to oppose without just reason; abate some degree of pride and moroseness.

Isaac Watts
Pride, Degrees, Reason

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