god of self

Benjamin Franklin once said, “There is perhaps no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride; disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive and will every now and then peep out and show itself. You will see it perhaps often in this history. For even if I could conceive that I had completely overcome it, I would probably be proud of my humility.” Thomas Jefferson also said, “Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.” These two men spoke of pride in this way, not because they had completely rid themselves of pride and inflated ego, but because they felt the need to warn others of its poison.  [Read more…] about Pride: The God of Self Is to Be Starved, Not Fed