Presumption (n.) toward God is an over-familiar comradeship — the loyal subject who wants an audience through some door other than the subjects' door, and is told: "Go round the other way, then we'll see."
Presumption (n.) differs from poverty or rank: those are innocent conditions one may bear without anxiety, but no one ever became presumptuous without being responsible for it, so its anxiety is a curse upon it.
Presumption (n.) is the same in the smallest matter as the greatest, since it is always against God: wanting his help in a forbidden way, or wanting to do without it.
Presumption (n.) about grace takes Christ's faithfulness in vain, and the faithfulness that pardons the penitent is a curse on the one who hardens himself.
Presumption (n.) turns a wise man into a fool: whoever thanks him after his first words because no more help is needed shows he was not talking with a wise man.