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.
Results from Tag: 'pride'
What Michael Crichton’s False ‘Lost World’ Gospel Tells Us About Ourselves
COMMENTARY: How many people who claim they think for themselves think any differently from the people around them?
Henry VIII Was Indeed a ‘Horrible, Horrible Person’ — But Should We Cancel Him For It?
Pride — whether it’s the pride of the Tudors or the pride of moderns — is destructive.
Happiness Begins When the Ego Dies
‘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.’
Massachusetts Bishop Asks Catholic Middle School to Take Down ‘Pride,’ ‘Black Lives Matter’ Flags
The school risks ‘no longer being identified as a Catholic institution’ if it persists in flying the flags, according to the local diocese.
State Department Allowing U.S. Embassies to Fly LGBT ‘Pride’ Flags
Earlier this week, the White House said that President Joe Biden has used “the bully pulpit” to promote “transgender rights.”
‘Just Be You’ versus ‘You Be Just’
Selflessness is the definition of love. Selfishness is love’s absence.
Wonder and Wickedness: The Anatomy of Good and Evil
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.
5 Prayers the Devil Likes to Overhear
“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)
