C. S. Lewis Quotes about Pride

The more pride we have, the more other people’s pride irritates us

The more pride we have, the more other people’s pride irritates us

Pride, People

For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.

Spiritual, Cancer, Pride

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.115, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Pride, on the other hand, is the mother of all sins, and the original sin of lucifer.... An instrument strung, but preferring to play itself because it thinks it knows the tune better than the Musician

C. S. Lewis

Mother, Pride, Thinking

C. S. Lewis (2009). “Yours, Jack: The Inspirational Letters of C. S. Lewis”, p.11, HarperCollins UK

Through pride the devil became the devil. Pride leads to every vice, it's the complete anti-God state of mind.

C. S. Lewis

Pride, Mind, Devil

The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began.

C. S. Lewis

Christian, Inspiration, Pride

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.

C. S. Lewis

Pride, Men, Competition

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.164, Simon and Schuster

Yes, pride is a perpetual nagging temptation. Keep on knocking it on the head, but don't be too worried about it. As long as one knows one is proud, one is safe from the worst form of pride.

C. S. Lewis

Pride, Long, Temptation

And above all, you must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best by its paint and panelling…the question should never be: ‘Do I like that kind of service?’ but ‘Are these doctrines true: Is holiness there? Does my conscience move me towards this? Is my reluctance to move to this door due to my pride, or my mere taste, or my personal dislike for this particular door-keeper?

C. S. Lewis

Moving, Pride, Doors

C. S. Lewis (2009). “Mere Christianity”, p.16, Harper Collins

There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he sees it in someone else; and of which hardly any people, except Christians, ever imagine that they are guilty themselves. […] There is no fault which makes a man more unpopular, and no fault which we are more unconscious of in ourselves.[…]The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility.

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Christian, Humility, Pride

But Pride always means enmity -- it is enmity. And not only enmity between man and man, but enmity to God.

C. S. Lewis

Mean, Pride, Men

C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.91, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.

C. S. Lewis

Humility, Pride, Men

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.164, Simon and Schuster

According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride.

C. S. Lewis

Christian, Teacher, Pride

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.164, Simon and Schuster

Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact? All virtues are less formidable to us once the man is aware that he has them, but this is specially true of humility.

C. S. Lewis

Humble, Humility, Pride

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

And that is enough to raise your thoughts to what may happen when the redeemed soul, beyond all hope and nearly beyond belief, learns at last that she has pleased Him whom she was created to please. There will be no room for vanity then. She will be free from the miserable illusion that it is her doing. With no taint of what we should now call self-approval she will most innocently rejoice in the thing that God has made her to be, and the moment which heals her old inferiority complex forever will also drown her pride… Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.

C. S. Lewis

Humility, Pride, Vanity

Catch {a man} at the moment when he is really poor in spirit and smuggle into his mind the gratifying reflection, "By jove, I'm being humble," and almost immediately pride - pride at his own humility - will appear.

C. S. Lewis

Humble, Humility, Pride

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

C. S. Lewis Quotes about Pride

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