Pettiness is one of its most stable characteristics. The things that bother us most about others—our pet peeves—also point toward falsity in our own self. The speck that bothers me in the life of someone else is almost always the log in my own eye (Matthew 7:3).
It’s the thing we pride ourselves of having that annoys us the most about others. It’s the false sense of self we’ve created that causes us to look down on others.
