January 15, 2026 WWJWMTD by Steve, the son of John (SsoJ)
PRIDE
Pride is at the center of everything evil.
SsoJ
“For pride is spiritual cancer:
it eats up the very possibility of love,
or contentment, or even common sense.”
C.S. Lewis
By humility and the fear of the LORD are riches, and honor, and life. Proverbs 22:4 KJV
"Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall". Proverbs 16:18
(First pride, then the crash—the bigger the ego, the harder the fall.)
"The LORD detests the proud but gives favor to the humble". Proverbs 16:5
"God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble." James 4:6
“Swallow your pride, you will not die, it’s not poison.” Bob Dylan
"Pride brings a person low, but the lowly in spirit gain honor". Proverbs 29:23
"Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted". Matthew 23:12
“Our pride demands from others the very things that we deny to them.” Susan Rieder
"Clothe yourselves with humility to serve one another, because God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble". 1 Peter 5:5
The worst thing about pride is that it will never let you realize that—“You are wrong”.
“All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.” Sophocles, Antigone
“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.” C.S. Lewis
Jesus speaks against sinful pride, calling it an inner defilement from the heart that leads to destruction, contrasting it with God’s favor for the humble, as seen in his Parable of the Pharisee and Tax Collector, where the humble tax collector was justified over the self-righteous Pharisee. He taught that true greatness comes from humility and service, not self-exaltation, emphasizing that God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble.
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