Pride

C.S. Lewis

Mere Christianity 

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.

Pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment or even common sense.

President Ezra Taft Benson

"Cleansing the Inner Vessel"

General Conference

April 1986

Pride does not look up to God and care about what is right.  It looks sideways to man and argues who is right.... Pride is characterized by ‘What do I want out of life?’  It is self-will as opposed to God’s will....  Humility responds to God’s will– to the fear of  His judgments and the needs of those around us.. To the proud, the applause of the world rings in their ears; to the humble, the applause of heaven warms their hearts.