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| + | "What is pride but fear masquerading as something else? What is self-assurance but insecurity parading as something else?"<ref>''The Journey to a New Life'', Chapter 3: [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-1/journey-new-life/prison-escape-your-mind The Prison]</ref> | ||
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| + | "Underneath pride is a sense of despair, a sense of despair that cannot yet be faced, and so there | ||
| + | is an attempt to run from it, to build something over it, to build a wonderful and beautiful expressive | ||
| + | life over an inner reality that is in disrepair and is inherently alone and sad." <ref name="wvii32"/> | ||
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| + | ==In the Light of Revelation== | ||
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| + | "The Revelation speaks to a different reality within people. It does not pander to | ||
| + | their intellect or their intellectual pride." <ref>Being a Person of the New Message (September 7, 2009)</ref> | ||
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| + | "Those who have intellectual pride, those who think they are intelligent and clever, those | ||
| + | who think they can discern everything, those who think they know the truth, those who | ||
| + | think they know what honesty is—this is the hypocrisy that will be revealed in the light | ||
| + | of God’s Power and Presence in the world." <ref>God’s Power & Presence in the World (April 23, 2011)</ref> | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
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==Further Study== | ==Further Study== | ||
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| + | *[http://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-3/steps-knowledge *''Steps to Knowledge''], Step 108: I am honored by God. | ||
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| + | *''Steps to Knowledge'', Step 144: I will honor myself today. | ||
==See Also== | ==See Also== | ||
[[Pursuit of self-importance]] | [[Pursuit of self-importance]] | ||
Latest revision as of 01:02, 2 April 2019
"Pride is a compensation. It is something you give yourself to make up for something that is lost. For practical purposes, let us say that pride is equivalent to self-importance.'”[1]
"What is pride but fear masquerading as something else? What is self-assurance but insecurity parading as something else?"[2]
"Underneath pride is a sense of despair, a sense of despair that cannot yet be faced, and so there is an attempt to run from it, to build something over it, to build a wonderful and beautiful expressive life over an inner reality that is in disrepair and is inherently alone and sad." [1]
In the Light of Revelation
"The Revelation speaks to a different reality within people. It does not pander to their intellect or their intellectual pride." [3]
"Those who have intellectual pride, those who think they are intelligent and clever, those who think they can discern everything, those who think they know the truth, those who think they know what honesty is—this is the hypocrisy that will be revealed in the light of God’s Power and Presence in the world." [4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume Two, Chapter 32: Pride
- ↑ The Journey to a New Life, Chapter 3: The Prison
- ↑ Being a Person of the New Message (September 7, 2009)
- ↑ God’s Power & Presence in the World (April 23, 2011)
Further Study
- Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume Two, Chapter 32: Pride
- *Steps to Knowledge, Step 108: I am honored by God.
- Steps to Knowledge, Step 144: I will honor myself today.