In the same degree that we overrate ourselves, we shall underrate others.

If we throw ourselves open to God, He will reveal. The trouble comes when we have closed areas, locked and barred places in our hearts, where we think, with pride, that we are right.

Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.

Avarice, envy, pride,Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of allOn Fire.

We can still fall into the trap of self-deceit today. It always begins through pride and arrogance, somehow thinking that our ways are superior to God's ways. In this season when the church celebrates Jesus' mighty work of redemption, let's not miss the joy of complete obedience to God's will and plans for our life.

Unforgiveness, bitterness, pride, even disappointment have the ability to rot the bones of man (see Proverbs 14:30).

Pride comes when we distance ourselves from God's Word, God's presence, and God's will.

Grace easily turns to hyper-grace in a world that has lost its view of God's throne room and a biblical theology of sin.

Pride rises above and against the knowledge of God, acting as if He is unworthy to be retained in our thoughts.

Transcendence is a healthy dose of insignificance to a race whose root sin is pride. Transcendence cuts us all down to our proper proportion before an awesome God. That you and I are not significant is a wonderful, freeing discovery, and that's what church is for.

I give you full credit for the discovery, I crawl, I grovel, my name is Watson, and you need not say what you were just going to say, because I admit it all.

That God should play the tyrant over man is a dismal story of unrelieved oppression; that man should play the tyrant over man is the usual dreary record of human futility; but that man should play the tyrant over God and find him a better man than himself is an astonishing drama indeed.