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Every one says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive,
it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.
The point is that each person’s pride is in competition with every one else’s pride. It is because I wanted to be the big noise at the party that I am so annoyed at someone else being the big noise. Two of a trade never agree. Now what you want to get clear is that Pride is essentially competitive—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 of it than the next man.
It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest.
Nearly all those evils in the world which people put down to greed or selfishness are really far more the result of Pride.
power is what Pride really enjoys:
it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began.
immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that—and, therefore, know yourself as nothing in comparison—you do not know God at all. As long as you are proud you cannot know God.
Pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.
The Fool’s Way—He puts the blame on the things themselves. He goes on all his life thinking that if only he tried another woman, or went for a more expensive holiday, or whatever it is, then, this time, he really would catch the mysterious something we are all after.
