“Spiritual pride is the worst of all pride, if it is not the worst snare of the devil. The heart is peculiarly deceitful on just this one thing.”

— Ichabod Spencer

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 485.

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American minister 1798–1854

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