Sentence examples for get prideful from inspiring English sources

God gave you your personality and talents, etc. God wants you to use your talents, such as can be seen in the parable of the talents, which I think does literally refer to gifts or talents, but God doesn't want us to get prideful about our abilities.

Getting prideful about yourself is harmful.

"If we're Christian we submit ourselves to the Holy Spirit... get off the prideful ladder, [and] God can bless that marriage and restore those relationships".

We have nothing to get puffed up or prideful about.

I'm a prideful person, but pride can get you in trouble sometimes.

It's a prideful thing when you get out there when all these people are cheering for you.

This is especially true with particularly prideful or egotistical enemies, who might do well to get knocked down a peg or two.

It is the voice in our consciousness which makes us think we must be the center of the universe, the repose of all prestige, and when we don't get these accolades we react with all the violence of our envious, prideful, and greedy outbursts, ruining our relationships, communities, and hopes in our own search for the Divine.

Unlike the angry or the prideful, the envious only make themselves miserable, and unlike those burdened by gluttony, they never get any pity.

Any surliness of yore has been smoothed out with, I suspect, some media training, and instead of crowing about how "prideful" he is of his achievements, his big word now is "lucky": he is so "lucky" to have done the work he's done and he is so "lucky" to get any work now.

She is happy to point out that when she went mano a mano with Walter Cronkite to bag both Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin in 1977 (after a behind-the-scenes feat of personal diplomacy that is described here in prideful detail), her ABC story got onto the air seconds before CBS showed its version.