The Foolishness of Pride

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Pride is the vice opposed to humility. The sin of pride is an inordinate desire or love of one’s own excellence. Through pride a man either thinks himself better than he is, or he thinks he can do things which are beyond his own power. The proud man thinks that all his talents are his own. He will not even acknowledge that he owes them to God. Or, if he acknowledges that they come from God, he thinks that they are due to his own merit rather than to God’s generosity.

Walter Farrell, O.P., S.T.M. and Martin J. Healy. S.T.D.

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