Monday, October 27, 2025

Loathsome Moral Leprosy!

Pride has a high and overweening conceit of its own possessions and acquirements, and ostentatiously boasts of what it is, has done, can do, or intends to do. Pride signifies such an exalted idea of us as leads to self-esteem and to contempt of others. 

Pride is self-admiration self-doating. Pride is the sin which laid the moral universe in ruins. Pride is the original sin, the inherent corruption of our nature. Pride spreads over humanity with contagious violence. Pride is the loathsome moral leprosy, raging alike through the palace and the cottage, and infecting equally the prince and the peasant. 

Love is no less opposed to VANITY than it is to pride! Pride differs from vanity thus pride causes us to value ourselves; vanity makes us anxious for applause. Pride renders a man odious; vanity makes him ridiculous. Love does not boast of, or ostentatiously display, its possessions, abilities, or good deeds. 

[John Angell James] 

1 Corinthians 13:4 ... Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,


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