ARROGANCE
Certain men might have been something if they had not thought themselves so. A
consciously great man is an evidently little one. GF48
We know many persons who are always doing a great deal, and yet do nothing; fussy
people, people to the front in every movement, persons who could set the whole world
right, but are not right themselves. 1936.697
The “superior” person will always be lost, take my word for it. The more superior he
is, the more sure he is to be lost; I mean not that he is superior, but that he thinks
himself so, superior to all teaching. He is not prepared to be a learner, he is ready to
set up as a teacher, and a master of anything you like. He is not the kind of man to
enter the gates of heaven; he carries his head too high for that. He is a man of broad
thought; and, of course, he goes the broad way. Narrow-minded people go in the
narrow way; but then it leadeth to life eternal, and therefore I commend it to you. 2304.187
Yet this is the bane and ruin of many men, they know so much that, like Solomon’s
sluggard, they are wiser in their own conceit than seven men who can render a
reason. See how they treat the Bible itself; when they open it, it is not that they may
hear what God says in it, but that they may tell God what he ought to have said. 2452.79
Some of the Lord’s workers have grown so big that the least thing offends them;
everything must be according to their own way, or they will have nothing to do with
it. 2453.94