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God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

Pride is the idolatry of the self. It is the nature of pride as competition with God – the displacing of God by the self at the center – that has led many Christian thinkers through the ages to regard pride (superbia) as the mother sin and the essential element in all sin.
Robert Rayburn