Pride is the utmost evil. It was through pride that the devil become devil: Pride leads to every other vices. It is the complete anti God state of mind.
The more pride one had, the more one disliked pride in others. To find out how proud you are, ask these questions: How much do I dislike it when other people snub me or take any notice on me, or shove their oar in, patronize me, or show off?
Pride is competitive by its very nature, while the other vices are competitive only, so to speak by accident. Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more than the next man. We say that people are proud of being rich, or clever, or good looking; in fact there would be nothing to be proud about. It is the comparison that makes you proud. Once the element of competition has gone, pride has gone.
Nearly all those evil in the world which people put down to greed or selfishness are really far more the result of pride. Greed will certainly make a man want money, for the sake of better house, better things to eat and drink. But only up to a point. Now, what makes a man with 1 million a year anxious to get 2 million a year? it is not the greed for more pleasure. It is pride - the wish to be richer than some other man, and still more the wish for power. For of course power is what pride really enjoys: there's nothing else that makes a man feel superior to others as being able to move them about like toy soldiers.
It is the pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began.
Pride always means enmity. Enmity to man as to God. As long as you proud, you can not know God. A proud man is always looking down on things and people: and of course as long as you are looking down you can not see something that's above you.
For pride is a spiritual cancer: It eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.
The more pride one had, the more one disliked pride in others. To find out how proud you are, ask these questions: How much do I dislike it when other people snub me or take any notice on me, or shove their oar in, patronize me, or show off?
Pride is competitive by its very nature, while the other vices are competitive only, so to speak by accident. Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more than the next man. We say that people are proud of being rich, or clever, or good looking; in fact there would be nothing to be proud about. It is the comparison that makes you proud. Once the element of competition has gone, pride has gone.
Nearly all those evil in the world which people put down to greed or selfishness are really far more the result of pride. Greed will certainly make a man want money, for the sake of better house, better things to eat and drink. But only up to a point. Now, what makes a man with 1 million a year anxious to get 2 million a year? it is not the greed for more pleasure. It is pride - the wish to be richer than some other man, and still more the wish for power. For of course power is what pride really enjoys: there's nothing else that makes a man feel superior to others as being able to move them about like toy soldiers.
It is the pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began.
Pride always means enmity. Enmity to man as to God. As long as you proud, you can not know God. A proud man is always looking down on things and people: and of course as long as you are looking down you can not see something that's above you.
For pride is a spiritual cancer: It eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.
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