The Devil’s Horrible Sin of Pride

The Devil’s Horrible Sin of Pride

For those who don’t know, pride is one of the seven deadly sins. Pride was the great sin of Lucifer, who wanted to be God and who led a third of the angels with him down into hell. The lure of self-pride worked well with those angels, now referred to as demons, and with Adam and Eve. Lucifer told Adam and Eve that they would be like God if they would only disobey Him and eat from the forbidden fruit. So now we have the original sin of disobedience to God (a sin we are all born with) mixed in with pride.  

Today, a lot of people who also have been tricked by the devil into believing that wrong is right and right is wrong are proud of being non-heterosexual human beings acting with lustful sin. 

Isaiah 5:20: Woe unto them who call good evil, and evil good.

“Pride” Month

This past month of June, also known as “Pride Month” by some people,  brought out a lot of sexual deviants who are proud of their sinfulness. Even worse, major companies like the Los Angeles Dodgers, Home Depot, and Anheuser Busch agree with them. Even the series about Jesus, called “The Chosen,” has rainbow “pride” flags on their set. What a sad state of affairs in America, where Christian-based morality has seemingly gone out the window with the rich and powerful in politics and business. Catholics especially were targeted by the once great Dodger organization, with men in heavy makeup as female impersonators mocking God’s Catholic female servants. As a lifelong Catholic, these events are really scary for me. and mirror what Hitler did to the Jews. He first portrayed them as ugly rats. Then, once the public had been brainwashed into thinking that the Jews were sub-human rodents, he murdered them by the millions, while the vast majority of gentile Germans looked the other way.  Hopefully, this won’t happen here with Catholics. But with liberal socialists in charge of corporations and government (can you say “national socialism?”), something similar just might occur.   

In addition, Catholic Churches, especially in France, are being mysteriously burned. This destruction is most likely payback for opposing an evil agenda as well as for opposing the murder of millions of babies through the demonic horror known as abortion.  

Mocking God Leads to Disaster

But God will not be mocked. God hates the proud, and loves the humble. One day He will return, not as a little baby to bring mercy and forgiveness into the world, but as a just judge of all evil men and women. Like the Israelites in the desert who didn’t believe that Moses was ever coming back (after only 40 days!) and who partied lustfully as a result, atheists and the immodest in today’s world don’t think that Jesus is ever coming back. Like those Israelites of 3400 years ago, those who doubt the truth are also committing lustful sins for all the world to see. Sodom and Gomorrah, two cities in the Bible where homosexual acts were openly committed, were both destroyed by fire.  

2 Peter 3:7: But by the same word the heavens and earth that now exist have been stored up for fire being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men. 

Infiltration of the Holy Catholic Church

Sadly, all of this sinful mockery of God’s laws has found its way into the Catholic Church. Dr. Taylor Marshall has written a most excellent book called Infiltration. In the book, Dr. Marshall outlines all of the ways in which this has happened and goes into great detail about plans to kill the Catholic Church through its own hierarchy. Another great book that I highly recommend is AA-1025, which reveals the Communist plot to put 1025 “Anti-Apostles” into seminaries way back in the 1930s. All of these men were smart, charismatic, and great speakers and writers, who Stalin knew would one day become bishops and Cardinals. The goal was to slowly but surely introduce the heresy known as “modernism” into the teachings of the Catholic Church (less emphasis on sacraments, grace, liturgy, and miracles and a much greater emphasis on “social justice”).  In achieving this goal, these men have been very successful.  

Being Proud of Others

As a reminder, being proud of your spouse, your kids, your parents, and others for what they have accomplished is not a sin. The difference, of course, is that you are proud of someone else and not your own sinfulness.  Pride in one’s own self, in one’s own mind, in one’s good looks, and in one’s own personal wisdom, is a great trap that a lot of people have fallen into.  St. Alphonsus Liguori nailed it when he said the following: 

“Who knows? Perhaps if God had given us greater talent, better health, a more personable appearance, we might have lost our souls! Great talent and knowledge have caused many to be puffed up with the idea of their own importance and, in their pride, they have despised others. How easily those who have these gifts fall into grave danger to their salvation! How many on account of physical beauty or robust health have plunged headlong into a life of debauchery! How many, on the contrary, who, by reason of poverty, infirmity or physical deformity, have become saints and have saved their souls, who, given health, wealth or physical attractiveness had else lost their souls! Let us then be content with what God has given us. ‘But one thing is necessary,’ and it is not beauty, not health, not talent. It is the salvation of our immortal souls.”

Saints’ quotes on the Sin of Pride

It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels. — St. Augustine

There never can have been, and never can be, and there never shall be, any sin without pride. — St. Augustine

The way to Christ is first through humility, second through humility, and third through humility. If humility does not precede and accompany and follow every good work we do, if it is not before us to focus on, it it is not beside us to lean upon, if it is not behind us to fence us in, pride will wrench from our hand any good deed we do at the very moment we do it. — St. Augustine

I will simply counsel every man and woman to beware of even the very least speck of pride, which seems to me to be the mere delight and liking of ourselves for anything whatsoever that either is in us or outwardly belongs to us. – St. Thomas More

Pride makes us forgetful of our eternal interests. It causes us to neglect totally the care of our soul.” — St John Baptist de la Salle

Virtues are formed by prayer. Prayer preserves temperance. Prayer suppresses anger. Prayer prevents emotions of pride and envy. Prayer draws into the soul the Holy Spirit, and raises man to Heaven.” — St Ephrem

“The way to Christ is first through humility, second through humility, and third through humility. If humility does not precede and accompany and follow every good work we do, if it is not before us to focus on, it it is not beside us to lean upon, if it is not behind us to fence us in, pride will wrench from our hand any good deed we do at the very moment we do it.” — St Augustine

“You must ask God to give you power to fight against the sin of pride which is your greatest enemy – the root of all that is evil, and the failure of all that is good. For God resists the proud.” — St Vincent de Paul

“Anyone who thinks of what he is, what he has been, and what he can do of himself will find it difficult to be proud.” — Saint Claude de la Colombiere

“There are very few people, even in the lowliest conditions, who do not have a good opinion of themselves. They regard themselves as far superior to their equals, and their detestable pride urges them to believe that they are indeed worth a great deal more than most other people. From this I conclude that pride is the source of all the vices and the cause of all the evils which have occurred, and which are still to come, in the course of the centuries. We carry our blindness so far that often we even glorify ourselves on account of things which really ought to cover us with confusion. –Saint John Vianney

“Blessed is the one who takes no more pride in the good that God says and does through him than in that which He says and does through someone else.” — Saint Francis of Assisi

“Whoever will proudly dispute and contradict will always stand outside the door. Christ, the master of humility, manifests His truth only to the humble and hides Himself from the proud.” –Saint Vincent Ferrer

“The rivers of Grace cannot flow uphill, up the steep cliff of the proud man’s heart. –St. Bernard of Clairvaux

Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt is something one is proud of.” – St Augustine

“Humility is the only thing that no devil can imitate.” –St John Climacus

“God refuses only the person who does not admit his own weakness; He sends away only the unhappy proud person. You must “hold him” well and strongly, with a poor spirit, with a poor heart, with a life entirely poor …” –St. Raphael Kalinowski

“In prosperity, give thanks to God with humility and fear, lest by pride you abuse God’s benefits and so offend him. –Saint Louis IX

What the Bible Says Concerning Pride

Proverbs 16:18: Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

Proverbs 8:13: The fear of the Lord is hatred of evil. Pride and arrogance and the way of evil and perverted speech I hate.

Sirach 10:13: For the beginning of pride is sin, and the man who clings to it pours out abominations. Therefore the Lord brought upon them extraordinary afflictions, and destroyed them utterly.

Mark 7:  21: For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, fornication, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within, and they defile a man.” 

1 John 2:16: For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the pride of life, is not of the Father but is of the world.

James 4:6: But he gives more grace; therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

Sirach 21:4: Terror and violence will lay waste riches; thus the house of the proud will be laid waste.

Loving the Proud

We here on earth have a job to do – and that is to love our enemies and to pray for them. We don’t hate them, but we certainly hate what they stand for. So get on your knees at Adoration and ask God to show them the way. Offer up your next Rosary for them. Have Masses said for them.  These things  will benefit both you and them!