Pride deafens us to the advice or warnings of those around us.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
I don't do pride. It seems to me to be a very unpleasant thing.
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.
Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. 'Good pride' represents our dignity and self-respect. 'Bad pride' is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of conceit and arrogance.
Pride is a sin that can readily be seen in others but is rarely admitted in ourselves.
It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.
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 thing that I have tried to abandon completely. Try as I might, pride still creeps into many of the things I do.
Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.