Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.
Pride is essentially competitive in nature. We pit our will against God's.
Pride creates a noise within us which makes the quiet voice of the Spirit hard to hear. And soon, in our vanity, we no longer even listen for it. We can come quickly to think we don't need it.
Pride is one of the socially acceptable sins in some corners of the evangelical culture. It's just straight-out ego gratification - how important I am; whether my name gets on the building or on the TV program or in the magazine article.
Pride is a sin that can readily be seen in others but is rarely admitted in ourselves.
Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don't give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.
I don't do pride. It seems to me to be a very unpleasant thing.
Pride deafens us to the advice or warnings of those around us.
At some point, the pride has to be a part of the whole day-to-day oeuvre. It's part of who you are and doesn't need to be discussed anymore.
I have come to the conclusion that it's a waste of time to have too much pride in anything. Perhaps it's good to have a sense of duty, a jealous zeal to protect or improve, but pride ultimately is only that which stands vulnerable to offense and degradation.