C S Lewis and pride
March 12th 2011 19:26
In his book, What Good is God, Philip Yancey quotes C S Lewis on the subject of being proud about the work you produce....
I have found out ludicrous and terrible things about my own character. Sitting by, watching the rising thoughts to break their necks as they pop up, one learns to know the sort of thoughts that do come. And, will you believe, it, one out of every three is a thought of self-admiration: when everything else fails, having had its neck broken, up comes the thought what an admirable fellow I am to have broken their necks! I catch myself posturing before the mirror, so to speak, all day long....it’s like fighting the hydra....Pride is the mother of all sins, and the original sin of Luther...i am san instruments strung but preferring to play itself because it thinks it knows the tune better than the Musician.
[Italics in the original - pg 86, Hodder & Stoughton edition]
I have found out ludicrous and terrible things about my own character. Sitting by, watching the rising thoughts to break their necks as they pop up, one learns to know the sort of thoughts that do come. And, will you believe, it, one out of every three is a thought of self-admiration: when everything else fails, having had its neck broken, up comes the thought what an admirable fellow I am to have broken their necks! I catch myself posturing before the mirror, so to speak, all day long....it’s like fighting the hydra....Pride is the mother of all sins, and the original sin of Luther...i am san instruments strung but preferring to play itself because it thinks it knows the tune better than the Musician.
[Italics in the original - pg 86, Hodder & Stoughton edition]
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