Pride

Do not store up resentment against your neighbor, no matter what his offense; do nothing in a fit of anger.

Pride is odious to both God and man; injustice is abhorrent to both of them.

Sovereignty passes from one nation to another because of injustice, violence and wealth.

How can there be such pride in someone who is nothing but dust and ashes? Even while he is living, man’s bowels are full of rottenness.

Look: the illness lasts while the doctor makes light of it; and one who is king today will die tomorrow.

Once a man is dead, grubs, insects and worms are his lot.

The beginning of man’s pride is to separate himself from the Lord and to rebel against his Creator.

The beginning of pride is sin. Whoever perseveres in sinning opens the floodgates to everything that is evil. For this the Lord has inflicted dire punishment on sinners; he has reduced them to nothing.

The Lord has overturned the thrones of princes and set up the meek in their place.

The Lord has torn up the proud by the roots and has planted the humble in their place.

The Lord has overturned the land of the pagans and totally destroyed them.

He has devastated several of them, destroyed them and removed all remembrance of them from the face of the earth.

Pride was not created for man nor violent anger, for those born of woman.

Sirach 10:6-18

Simply put, be modest and humble. Live your life with humility.

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