When we consider ourselves above others (anyone), we lose touch with God.

Really, we’re not “above” anything.

Have you ever noticed that?

We also lose joy.

As a deacon quoted at Mass the other day (from the great Christian writer C. S. Lewis): “A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.”

The more full you are of yourself, the less room there is in you for God.

Flee from pride—in yourself or others.

Arrogance of any sort (including spiritual pride) is abhorrent to He Who is humility itself.

“The hungry He has filled with good things,” says Luke 1:53. “The rich sent empty away.”

You’ll not get there by way of a Ferrari.

Few traps are equal to materialism, from whence pride so often flows.

Caution: don’t fill yourself up with theology but with the Holy Spirit.

It’s not the brain that reaches Heaven, but the spirit, heart, and mind.

Our Church has strayed away from that at her own cost and loss.

You are never who you really are as long as there is pretense.

With pride, you are oil and the Lord is (living) water.

There is no melding. Pride goth before the fall (and the longer the fall takes to come, the more severe).

Hide from pride. Move with love.

Every single person on this planet is equal. Every single one is loved by the Creator.

Let’s end with another Lewis quotation:

“Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.”

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