
Pride Is the Absence of Humility, Love and Truth
Pride poisons reason because the proud refuse to see what they don’t want to see.
Pride poisons reason because the proud refuse to see what they don’t want to see.
COMMENTARY: How many people who claim they think for themselves think any differently from the people around them?
Pride — whether it’s the pride of the Tudors or the pride of moderns — is destructive.
‘The reason most people are not happy,’ says Venerable Fulton Sheen, ‘is because they want to be happy in their own way and without any purchase price.’
The school risks ‘no longer being identified as a Catholic institution’ if it persists in flying the flags, according to the local diocese.
Earlier this week, the White House said that President Joe Biden has used “the bully pulpit” to promote “transgender rights.”
Selflessness is the definition of love. Selfishness is love’s absence.
The way of humility leads, via the rolling road of wonder, to the heaven-haven of the reward. The way of pride leads, via the thorny path of prejudice, to a hell of one’s own devising.
“When we pray, do we speak from the height of our pride and will, or ‘out of the depths’ of a humble and contrite heart? He who humbles himself will be exalted; humility is the foundation of prayer...” (CCC 2559)
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