We pray because we are unworthy to pray. Our prayers are heard precisely because we believe that we are unworthy. We become worthy to pray when we risk everything on God's faithfulness alone.

lest we be puffed up and make an idol out of our righteousness.

Hence the entire psalm accuses nothing but pride, as stated below (v. 23): The pride of those who hate Thee goes up continually. For this is the cause of unbelief and the beginning of all evils.

No matter how insignificant the little office may be, they take a foot though they do not have an inch,73 and always want to be God themselves when they ought to be God's maid.

Hence every external worship and religion is dregs, which alone are left to be drunk by those who by it exalt themselves over others.

Therefore conquering pride, restraining riotous living, crucifying the flesh, these are great beyond all the power of men.

IN this chapter Moses selects another occasion for transgressing the First Commandment, an occasion called spiritual pride because it boasts of its righteousness and merits. This is trust in one's own works, and no plague and opponent of faith or trust in the mercy of God is more destructive.

True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine a virtue.

Love the Lord, all you his saints! The Lord preserves the faithful but abundantly repays the one who acts in pride.

St. Peter scold me saying son, where have you been? And he saw me with you and asked why are you with that person? and I said to him sorry St. Peter, I though it was heaven.

Only the public can make a star. It's the studios who try to make a system out of it.

The Trump White House stood less for government and the push-pull of competing interests and developing policies, and more, in a brand-savvy world, as a fixed and unpopular cultural symbol.