When we consider ourselves above others (anyone), we lose touch with God. Really, one should contemplate, we’re not “above” anything.

Have you ever noticed that?

When we’re haughty, 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 your soul for God.

Flee from pride—in yourself or others.

Arrogance of any sort (including spiritual pride) is abhorrent to He Whom 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, to true joy, by way of a Ferrari.

The opposite is true.

Few traps are equal to materialism, where pride so often germinates (and contaminates).

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 higher 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. “For if anyone thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself” (Galatians 6:3).

With pride, you are oil whereas the Lord is what? Living waters. There is no melding.

When we have “unforgiveness” in us, when we hold within a grudge, we also diminish space for the Spirit of God.

Hide from pride. Move with love.

Pride goeth before the fall (and the longer the fall takes to come, the more severe).

Remember always that every single person on this planet is equal. Every single one is loved by the Creator.

Let’s end with another relevant quotation:

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

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[Resources: books of devotion]