Puritans on Pride
A few choice quotes from that wonderful collection, A Puritan Golden Treasury:-
Pride loves to climb up, not as Zacchaeus to see Christ, but to be seen. (William Gurnall)
A proud faith is as much a contradiction as a humble devil. (Stephen Charnock)
I may say of pride, many sins have done wickedly, but thou surmountest them all; for the wrathful man, the prodigal man, the lascivious man, the surfeiting man, the slothful man, is rather an enemy to himself than to God; the envious man, the covetous man, the deceitful man, the ungrateful man, is rather an enemy to men than to God, but the proud man sets himself against God (because he does against His laws), he maketh himself equal with God (because he does all without God and craves no help of Him); he exalteth himself above God (because he will have his own will). (Henry Smith)
As death is the last enemy; so pride the last sin that shall be destroyed in us. (John Boys)
When the devil cannot stray us from a good work, then he laboureth by all means to make us proud of it. (Henry Smith)
Our father was Adam, our grandfather dust, our great-grandfather nothing. (William Jenkyn)
Only a Christian of strong grace can bear the strong wine of commendation without the spiritual intoxication. (William Jenkyn)