Thoughts to calibrate pride

Some of my thoughts about pride:

When people are open and honest with each other, pride melts away and is replaced by heart-felt love and compassion. Pride and conscience can’t work side by side. One always overrides the other.

Pride is unkind to anybody who gets in its way. It’s a lie-infector, infecting human ego with all sorts of distortions.

When pride is our guide, “me” gets a glorified ride. Me! Pride perceives no need for forgiveness, mercy, or grace.

Most arguments are more about pride than about substance. Pride is a security blanket for our insecurities.

When pride and truth collide, truth frequently loses. Pride is self-deception. It always spins self in the best light, even twisting the truth to do it. In order to save face, pride resists facing facts.

It’s hard for us humans to get beyond our pride and to see our life from God’s perspective. However, the greater your perception of the presence of God, the less place there is for pride in your life.

Pride makes God seem small and irrelevant. When pride moves into religion, it shifts the focus from God and His authority to self, feelings, and control.