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Pride » Phil

Posted by rayww on January 8, 2003, at 9:33:18

In reply to Re: empower: Disclaimer » rayww, posted by Phil on January 6, 2003, at 12:39:40

Thanks for suggesting the books. I will definately get them. C.S. Lewis is the most quoted Christian in mormon sermons too. One such, a classic now in the church on pride, is (BTW, a very mormon sermon given as a warning to our people)

http://library.lds.org/nxt/gateway.dll?f=templates$fn=default.htm$xhitlist_q=benson%20talk%20on%20pride$xhitlist_x=Simple$xhitlist_s=relevance-weight$xhitlist_d=$xhitlist_hc=%5BXML%5D%5Bkwic%2C0%5D$xhitlist_xsl=xhitlist.xsl$xhitlist_vpc=first$xhitlist_sel=title%3Bpath%3Bcontent-type%3Bhome-title%3Bhit-context%3Bfield%3Azr%3Bfield%3ARef


This is the C.S. Lewis quote used in that sermon, and I have never forgotten it:

"The proud make every man their adversary by pitting their intellects, opinions, works, wealth, talents, or any other worldly measuring device against others. In the words of C. S. Lewis: "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 has gone, pride has gone." (Mere Christianity, New York: Macmillan, 1952, pp. 109-10.)"

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