Pride
Pride is self-love, and in one sense a Christian is enjoined to be proud, another way of saying Love your neighbor as yourself is to say Love yourself as your neighbor. That doesn’t mean your pulse is supposed to quicken every time you look in the mirror any more than it is supposed to quicken every time your neighbor passes by the window. It means simply that the ability to work for your own good despite all the less than admirable things you know about yourself is closely related to the ability to work for your neighbor’s good despite all the less than admirable things you know about him.
Self-pride is a sin when, instead of leading you to share with others the self you love, it leads you to keep your self in perpetual safe-deposit. You not only don’t accrue any interest that way but become less and less interesting every day.
F. Breuchner
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