“Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind… [and] Pride is essentially competitive – by its very nature ... Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man. We say that people are proud of being rich, or clever, or good-looking, but they are not. They are proud of being richer, or cleverer, or better-looking than others. If everyone else became equally rich, or clever, or good-looking there would be nothing to be proud about. It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition has gone, pride has gone.” - C.S. Lewis
Posted on: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 13:55:05 +0000
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