Pride
"For Pride is the lust of the intelligence and it is the greatest sin, for it is the very sin of Lucifer. God forgives so many things and His Light shines forth with love to illuminate ignorance and dispel Doubts. But He does not forgive Pride who mocks Him, saying it is greater than Him."[1]
In "The Gospel as It Was Revealed to Me"
- Humility and Pride.[2]
- (Jesus): This is what Satan wanted. The stated motive was a pretext; the truth was: "Glorify yourself for being the Messiah," to lead me to the other concupiscence, that of Pride.[3]
- Regarding Judas who had just made an excellent performance at the Temple, Jesus said to Simon the Zealot (Apostle): "Say nothing. He is a very Soul ill. Praise would be like food given to a convalescent suffering from a severe stomach fever. It would make him worse, for he would glory in having been noticed. And where Pride enters…"[4]
- Judas’ Pride will prevent him from being saved.[5]
- Anger and Pride are two bad companions, Judas. They lead to delirium, and he who deliriously sees things that are not there, says what he should not say.[6]
- You are full of Pride. You have it for every reason and everyone. Even being "mine" is Pride for you. But, foolish as you are, aren’t you healed by comparing what you are with Him who chose you? It is not because I called you that you will be saints. It is because you will have become so after my Call.[7]
- Pride is the lust of the intelligence and it is the greatest sin, for it is the very sin of Lucifer.[8]
- Pride is the lever that overturns spirits, and the magnet that tears them from me.[9]
- Repentance is a form of love. One who repents says to God through his repentance: "I cannot remain under the threat of your wrath, because I love you and I want to be loved."[10]
- There is no sin that God will not forgive if the sinner is truly repentant.[11]
- Even sorrow for an error committed, which afflicts you because by this error you displeased God, must be peaceful, comforted by humility and trust. Self-reproach, harshness towards oneself is always a sign of Pride, and thus also of distrust.
If someone is humble, he knows that he is a poor man subject to the miseries of the flesh which sometimes triumphs. If someone is humble, he trusts not so much in himself as in God and remains calm even in defeats, saying: "Forgive me, Father. I know you know my weakness which sometimes overcomes. I believe you have pity on me. I have the firm confidence that you will help me in the Future even more than before, though I give You so little satisfaction."
And be neither indifferent nor stingy in the Goods of God. Give what you have in wisdom and virtue. Be active in spiritual matters as people are active in matters of the flesh.[12] - Even the word of God and the gifts of God, if they fall on Hearts possessed by Pride, become a cause of ruin, not by themselves, but because of Pride that alters their good substance.[13]
- The Pride of man is such that the greater the ruin of his Soul, the more he seeks to patch it with incomplete remedies that create an increasingly greater infirmity… The humble are always sincere and even courageous who have no shame of the wounds received in the Struggle. The Proud are always liars and cowards. Because of their Pride, they arrive at death, having failed to go to Him who can heal them…[14]
- Only God can act of Himself. This thought is Pride. In Pride there is still Satan.[15]
In the fundamental Christian texts
In the catechism of the Catholic Church
- Vices can be classified according to the Virtues they oppose, or linked to the capital sins that Christian experience distinguished following Saint John Cassian[16] and Saint Gregory the Great.[17] They are called capital because they generate other sins, other vices. They are Pride, Avarice, envy, anger, impurity, gluttony, sloth or acedia.[18]
- One can sin in various ways against the love of God: …The hatred of God comes from Pride. It opposes the love of God whose goodness it denies and which it pretends to curse as the one who prohibits sins and inflicts penalties.[19]
- Envy represents one of the forms of sadness and therefore a refusal of charity; the baptized will struggle against it by Goodwill. Envy often comes from Pride; the baptized will train to live in humility.[20]