“It is pride which had been the
chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began .
. . Pride always means enmity-it is enmity. And not only enmity between man and man, but enmity to God.

In God you come up against
something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that-and therefore
know yourself as nothing in comparison-you do not know God at all. As long as you are proud you cannot know
God. A proud man is always looking down
on things and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you
cannot see something that is above you.

That raises a terrible question. How is it that people who are quite
obviously eaten up with Pride can say they believe in God and appear to
themselves very religious? I am afraid
it means they are worshipping an imaginary God.”

C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity