PRIDE
IS A DEADLY SIN
According to Christianity ,there are seven cardinal
virtues , and likewise seven deadly sins.
Cardinal virtues are named as: chastity,
temperance, charity, patience, diligence, kindness, and humility.
Deadly sins include lust, gluttony,
greed, sloth, wrath, envy and pride.
Of all the above-mentioned sins, pride is the most obnoxious. Proud
people hate and humiliate others. They are proud of their wealth, abilities,
skills, superficial knowledge, so-called
unreliable wisdom, sources of physical
strength, fleeting achievements, political resources, and all those cuurent
qualities that are absolutely transient.
In his poem Death the Leveller , the
English poet James Shirley ( 1596-1666) says:
The glories of our blood and state
are shadows, not substantial things. There is no armour against fate, death
lays his icy hands on kings, Sceptre and Crown must tumble dowm. And in the dust
be equal made with the crooked scythe and spade.
Concluding his poem, Shirley says:
Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.
Undoubtedly, humility is better than
pride; the former does not belittle the achievements of its predecessors and
contemporaries.
It is an ever-changing world; what
is unique today becomes obsolete in future.
Self-praise with some humility is agreeable but with
arrogance it is detestable.
Look at these famous quotes:
*Pride is the master sin of the devil.
*To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.
*We rise in glory as we sink in
pride.
*Pride, the most dangerous of all
faults, proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought.
*Historically. the beginning of
pride was in heaven. The continuance of pride is on earth. The end of pride is
in hell. This history shows how unprofitable it is.
PUNCHLINE: Dissolve your ego before
it dissolves you.
*****
G.R.Kanwal
21 June 2026
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