Quotes by Robert Rayburn

Robert Rayburn (1915–1990) — Theologe, Pastor und Hochschulgründer · reformiert · USA

Recurring topics: Humility & Pride, Guilt & Forgiveness, Church & Congregation, Meaning & Identity, Temptation & Struggle

Quotes by Robert Rayburn

Pride is the idolatry of the self. It is the nature of pride as competition with God – the displacing of God by the self at the center – that has led many Christian thinkers through the ages to regard pride (superbia) as the mother sin and the essential element in all sin.
Robert Rayburn

Anything which makes it easier for us to worship should be encouraged while anything that draws attention to itself rather than to God should be eliminated from the corporate services.
Robert Rayburn

It is man’s most monumental effrontery to imagine that a selfish, petty collection of unworthy desires such as himself belongs in the center, even of his own life. The insidious nature of pride is such that men and women rarely appreciate how proud they are, and the index of pride’s power over the heart is that even the purest motions of the Christian soul are deeply affected by it.
Robert Rayburn

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