Ouch!

The single most frequent reason I see for misinterpreting a text or Scripture is not ignorance of the original language as helpful as that is, and not the ignorance of the life situation whence it came but rather the glaring, flagrant errors of inferences [that] we draw from the text.

—RC Sproul in an interview with D.A. Carson

Pride

Pride changed angels into devils, and Satan uses pride as a favorite device for separating us from God and from God’s help. Pride stiffens the knees so that they will not bow down and muzzles our voice so that we do not call out in humble supplication. 

—David E. Garland

Humility

When you perceive that you are being humiliated, look on it as the sign of a sure guarantee that grace is on the way. Just as the heart is puffed up with pride before its destruction, so it is humiliated before being honored. 

—Bernard of Clairvaux, via David E. Garland