Do nothing out of selfish ambition.<\/p>\n
The Bible, Philippians 2:3<\/i><\/p>\n
Ambition can creep as well as soar.<\/p>\n
Edmund Burke<\/i><\/p>\n
Accursed ambition,<\/p>\n
How dearly I have bought you.<\/p>\n
John Dryden<\/i><\/p>\n
There is no peace in ambition<\/p>\n
Madame de Pompadour<\/i><\/p>\n
Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition:<\/p>\n
By that sin fell the angels. How can man then,<\/p>\n
The image of his maker, hope to win by it?<\/p>\n
William Shakespeare, Henry VIII<\/i><\/p>\n
Love and meekness, lord,<\/p>\n
Become a churchman better than ambition.<\/p>\n
William Shakespeare, Henry VIII<\/i><\/p>\n
Who soars too near the sun<\/p>\n
with golden wings,<\/p>\n
Melts them; to ruin his own<\/p>\n
fortune brings.<\/p>\n
William Shakespeare<\/i><\/p>\n
Ambition is an enemy to peace in the church. \u201cDiotrephes loves to have the pre-eminence,\u201d and that fellow has spoiled many a happy church.<\/p>\n
C.H. Spurgeon<\/i><\/p>\n
Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices: so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.<\/p>\n
Jonathan Swift<\/i><\/p>\n
Ambition destroys its possessor.<\/p>\n
The Talmud<\/i><\/p>\n
Oh, beware! Do not seek to be something! Let me be nothing, and Christ be all in all.<\/p>\n
John Wesley<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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