Pride Precludes Progress

Pride tends to be one of the biggest obstacles for mankind. Until you learn to let it go, you will never be able to get the help you need from God. God sends no one away empty, except those who are full of themselves.

As long as you are proud you cannot know God. 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.

Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man. We say that people are proud of being rich, or clever, or good-looking, but they are not. They are proud of being richer, or cleverer, or better looking than others. If everyone else became equally rich, or clever, or good looking there would be nothing to be proud about.

For pride is spiritual cancer. It eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.

The more pride we have, the more other people's pride irritates us.

Through pride the devil became the devil. Pride leads to every vice, it's the complete anti-God state of mind.

Make no mistake about it. Pride is the great sin. It is the devil's most effective and destructive tool.

Pride has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began.

- C.S. Lewis

“Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.” (Proverbs 16:18)

"They wear stiff necks and high heads; yea, and because of pride, and wickedness, and abominations, and whoredoms, they have all gone astray save it be a few, who are the humble followers of Christ; nevertheless, they are led, that in many instances they do err because they are taught by the precepts of men. O the wise, and the learned, and the rich, that are puffed up in the pride of their hearts, and all those who preach false doctrines, and all those who commit whoredoms, and pervert the right way of the Lord, wo, wo, wo be unto them, saith the Lord God Almighty, for they shall be thrust down to hell!" (2 Nephi 28:14-15)