4 Ways C.S. Lewis Examines Pride

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In this excerpt from "Mere Christianity," C.S. Lewis discusses the vice of pride, which he considers the greatest sin and the root of all other vices. He explains that pride is inherently competitive, leading people to value themselves over others and even over God. Unlike other vices, pride does not foster camaraderie but instead creates enmity. Lewis warns that pride can disguise itself within religious life, causing people to feel superior to others under the guise of righteousness. He emphasizes that true humility involves recognizing and relinquishing pride, not thinking less of oneself but thinking of oneself less.

[@novellamoreland5692]

"Pride... The more we have it in ourselves, the more we dislike it in others" 😲

[@Sub_901]

That stung, indeed!

[@raymondtaylor6049]

😮

[@jenniferbreidenbach579]

I had the same reaction

[@johncronin5311]

Lord please save me from myself, Thank You Jesus

[@miken2604]

WOW!!! so good

[@lizzy5637]

Amen 🙏 🙏 🙏

[@timothyfortune3922]

I have prayed that exact same prayer many times!

[@suelizmungai8863]

The number of times I pray this prayer😮‍💨

[@Eva-Libi]

@johncronin5311, absolutely agree🙃. And thank You Abba Father for saving me for You, in Your Beloved Spirit and Truth, IJN Amen Thanks for the blessed reminder sunshine. Abba Father I pray nothing but You, Your Righteousness, Your Peace and Your Joy in the Holy Spirit, His Rule, His Reign, His Power and His Righteousness for Your Beloved son John, who IS perfectly accepted in The Beloved Son, NOW! I praise You Gracious and Righteous Name Abba Father. Thank You for blessing John and his family indeed, In Jesus Name Amen x Much much Love (our Beloved God, all of Him IS Love) to you and yours sunshine. One of the best declarations I’ve ever heard.🙃

[@zacariasnelson5753]

Pride is so dangerous and beguiling that it can be mistaken for self loathing, where one truly believes they have sinned so great that the Blood of the Lamb of God isn’t sufficient to cover their sins. How arrogant to believe you’re capable of such sin that the Creator Himself cannot forgive from His own sacrifice. This is what I’ve needed to take to heart for a long time

[@lizzy5637]

Amen 🙏

[@mykaylaberna7588]

This!! I've heard it be said, if you don't think that Jesus' blood can cover ALL your sins, it's akin to telling him "you're not good enough to save me, I require even more from you."

[@trishbowring726]

This is an interesting point of view. I never considered it from this perspective.

[@deanwilliams534]

Very well said

[@jane_7777]

Thank you for this! ❤ I so need this in this season of my life. Life's been hard.

[@jafuni9349]

C. S. Louis made a really important distinction between pride and vanity, this was enlightening for me. So many nuggets, but this one is my favorite: “Pride makes people look down on others, and those who are looking down cannot look up.”

[@maxcosby8166]

Amen 🙏

[@houstonanderson6482]

Vanity speaks to what you wrongly want others to think of you and pride is what you wrongly think about yourself

[@msudawgma]

They don't want to look up.

[@SkoolNerds]

The level of emotional intelligence this man had is off the charts. Lord Jesus Christ son of God have mercy on me a sinner.

[@RichardMizenko]

If you are born again you are a Saint. Romans 5:8

[@SLC259]

☦️

[@HanstheTraffer]

Agreed. I have never heard a more convicting description of pride in my life. The Bible referrs to that "emotional intellegence" as "wisdom." "The wisdom of heaven..." It is not of the man it is of heaven.

[@christophermckillop549]

I think I will need to hear this on a regular basis. There is so much in this 17 minutes.

[@angelacrick3066]

😊

[@siseabarton874]

Amen! Lord Jesus please deliver me from all pride and false humility that I may be Holy Set apart for You and Your Kingdom, Glory, Honor, Praise and Worship. Relieve me of the bondage of self that I may better do Thy Will.

[@matthewhester2630]

Great prayer!

[@graceperiod5352]

Fix our eyes 👀 on Jesus 🙏

[@BruzeCruze]

I recognize that phrase…and pray it regularly. I offer myself to You, to build with me and do with me as You will…may I do Your will always.

[@psychedforlife7176]

I'm really just a small dirty sheep that can't figure out the way on my own. Thank God for Jesus being the Good Shepherd and coming to find me to bring me back to His flock. I was lost but He found me.

[@derekdavis3004]

When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with the humble is wisdom. - Proverbs 11:2

[@ScripturePathways.01]

This video hit home hard. I've struggled with pride disguised as self-hatred for years, thinking my sins were too big for forgiveness. It's eye-opening to realize that's just another form of pride. Lewis's insights are helping me see how sneaky pride can be. Learning to truly humble myself before God's grace. Thank you for this powerful reminder.

[@billyback1038]

I have a grandson who was raised in church and to believe the gospel. When his grandmother, who loved him above the others, asked him to go to college, he did. It was a Baptist college and he went in as a believer and came out an atheist. I was talking to him the other day, and I told him, not to let his pride keep him from believing in God. It's not hard to spot. He really is full of pride since he graduated.

[@BozzleyOfficial]

Universities are liberal brainwashing factories. He will find his way back.

[@Ykpaina988]

He should have proud of graduating

[@brianbarcelo6920]

No matter where one receives their education, I got mine on the street, pride is ever present, college just serves it up in heaps, it's a stronghold of prideful principles.

[@lisadixon3127]

College destroys their minds

[@bravingbrivatebrian]

I think that if a person is raised into a belief it is almost necessary for them to lose faith first in order to develop true faith. When faith is inherited before one has a real choice it isn't quite the same thing. Everyone has to deal with and confront pride at some point. If a person were incapable of pride, it would be no great virtue to overcome it.

[@DaDoubleDee]

"The devil loves curing a small fault by giving you a great one." Dang, that's some wisdom.

[@RobG811]

“Pride ends in humiliation, while humility brings honor” - Proverbs 29:23

[@kiddey]

29:23 A man's pride shall bring him low; But honour shall uphold the humble in spirit. KJV

[@hprincessbride5277]

When I am self focused, Lord God refocus me! Day after day; I must decrease and Jesus must increase! Help is my plea. 🙏🏽

[@alicemitchell3668]

Amen 🙏 Amen 🙏

[@ajschielie2447]

Yes, i echo that prayer🙇‍♀️

[@christmaspartylights]

Amen!!!

[@melanieburns6009]

How is C. S. Lewis so smart!!?? I'm always so mind blown by his insights.. This is a good message to keep me in check

[@johornbuckle5272]

He is gifted for sure, thank God

[@loli3939]

Look at who his heavenly Father is, took Clive a bit to get to his salvation question too, so remember to be kind and share the gospel to all ages. So grateful for the skilled people "and the idiots as Lewis says," God created. Thank you Father!

[@vdsilva6806]

Man… this was a major lesson on the evils of our pride!

[@ma_86]

Yes it’s so true!

[@euphemiariley4523]

Pride is not only the number one sin, it is also dangerous. Pride goeth before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall. Proverbs 16:18.

[@claradiaz3147]

The reason why pride is near the top of worst sins is that it blinds us from all our other sins.

[@oppressednolonger1497]

amen

[@jemstanley7203]

This is so true. What we hate in Others is found first in us. 😮😢

[@HanstheTraffer]

Romans 2:1 was the passage that caused me to pledge my life to try and live by the Bible almost 40 years ago. No one led me to it, I just picked up the Bible and started reading (never read it before). I read Romans 1 and was thinking "yeah, those dirty perverts and terrible sinners"....Then I read Romans 2:1 "You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge another, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things." I literally looked up and saw God and all of heaven looking at me in my guilt. I dove to my knees and promised God, "God I don't know what is in your Bible but I promise to spend the rest of my life trying to find out and live by it." I have done so. I STILL struggle mightily with pride. ...But I have found that the overwhelming Love of Christ is the tide that washes me of self.

[@Ruth_1_16]

“ the more pride one has.. the more one disliked the pride in others”….. 🫨🫨🫨🫢🫢 😱😱😱😱🤯🤯🤯🤯 shot to my heart! 🙏🏼✝️Lord, forgive me! Lord, help me! Thank you for these revelations!

[@CtPartridge]

There is a thought, a confession which is an anchor of humility. "Apart from Thee I can do nothing." Apart from Jesus, we are nothing in terms of faith or religion. He is the vine which nourishes the branch and brings forth the fruit from it: love, joy, peace, patience, goodness and so on. It is the grace of God, his work in my heart which enables my anchor to hold. Gracious Father in Heaven, in the kindness of your gentle Spirit, grant me grace to be reminded that apart from you and your Son, I can do nothing pertaining to love and Godliness.

[@makeit2649]

I must gently disagree with your interpretation of this verse. This verse says that without Christ, we can do NOTHING. That isn't limited to things relating only to our faith, religions, or matters of love and Godliness. It says NOTHING. Not one of us - believer or unbeliever - can even take a breath without Him. In Daniel 5:23, the prophet reminds a pagan king that God holds his (the king's) breath in his hands. Paul told the unbelieving Greeks in Acts 17:28 that "in Him we live and move and have our being." So, nothing means "not a single thing." :)

[@loli3939]

​@@makeit2649splitting hairs 😮

[@edwardrobinol7474]

Someone like this so I’m reminded to come back and humble myself

[@beemer2869]

Is this the voice of C S Lewis? Such wise words. Makes me feel very humble.

[@UnitedWayWashCounty]

Yes, this was a reading he did of The Four Loves, for the BBC. It is the only existing recording of Lewis reading his own work. Such a treasure.

[@rooferbob4707]

Yes this is CS Lewis. Many of his writings aired on the radio originally.

[@Abr022575]

I doubt it

[@karenchandler7964]

So insightful! Showed me some ugly things about myself.... But the Lord is able to help me!!!

[@felicialally5703]

Amen!

[@matthewhester2630]

"He (the devil) is perfectly content to see you becoming chaste and brave and self-controlled, provided all the time he is setting up in you the dictatorship of pride". This was powerful for me. I used to stack up perceived virtues like trophies, glorifying myself in my own mind. I'm currently trying to transition from that mode of thinking to that of forgetting myself and pursuing virtue because it's what God has called us to. Lord, let my motivation be of submission and obedience, not pride and false humility!

[@canoe365]

Excellent advice. Drawing closer to God makes me admire Him more and take less notice of myself.

[@MH-zq4nl]

I once had the great blessing of experiencing the personality of God. The most striking initial impression was that He has no pride. This amazed me, to know that the One with all power and glory is totally devoid of pride. He has none. Pride is the self indulgent sin that makes us most unlike God. This revelation has given me great discernment. CS must have had so much insight into the subject because of the highly competetive academic circles in which he moved. It is the most wonderful blessing to meet a man or woman, expert or leader in their field, who has not succumbed to this temptation. Blessed are the poor in Spirit.

[@juliepolyanski6940]

61 years old and finally understanding “Blessed are the poor in spirit,” thank you for this comment, this platform and all your servants Lord!

[@Nomorewarsforisrael]

This should be mandatory viewing for school kids.

[@BenjaminAlmberg]

I needed this. Jesus Christ is so awesome to send his servants to teach and correct us. So loving and gentle in correction and teaching. I pray we are all open in our hearts to receive. Jesus Christ can open our hearts to Himself and His love.

[@woodshed_moments]

Simple, potent and relevant.... leave it to C.S. Lewis Bless him

[@CaptainArn]

I WAS NOT ready for how GOOD this would be

[@gothboi4ever]

"Pride is where the Devil Lies." -C.S. Lewis

[@MsRacheal5451]

Oh God save me from the spirit of pride. Let me live for you not myself 🙏

[@ma_86]

Amen amen

[@hopenkosi2215]

And one thing about pride,it makes one to live in fear cause you might loose a certain thing. Thank you Holy Spirit for speaking to me.

[@bruce5868]

Gonna save this one to my favourites. I'll need to come back to this multiple times.

[@grantstarsky9841]

This certainly sheds light on the origin of Gay pride. “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

[@lukeweaver9287]

Yes, pride is the mother of all sin. Keep it away from us, Lord, we pray! 🙏

[@lizzy5637]

Amen 🙏 🙏 🙏

[@susanvan1672]

"If you think you are not conceited, then you are conceited indeed....." C.S. Lewis

[@DystopiaFatigue]

Today, there's an entire month to celebrate this vice and the accompanying immorality it defends.

[@sylviajones4907]

Praying for these people. I believe they were hurt in their past. Pray for God's intervention in their heart.

[@robertfischer1041]

So true. And if you object to it, you will face the wrath of the devil himself!

[@dreamsaresharedhere_]

This is the first time I’ve listened to a CS Lewis lecture. He reminds me of Alan Watts, who I used to listen to before accepting Christ. I am guilty of the pride he describes. Its scares me that I might be making up a god and not being a true believer. I think its true. Lord have mercy on me.

[@cwavt8849]

I needed this. My father struggled with pride his entire life. I have sworn to try to not bear that trait. But, I do. This showed me how to spot it, and how to fight against it. Thank you, I was convicted

[@melissastinebaugh537]

Lessons we all need to hear. Thank you for this!

[@JorgeBennettCompositor]

Thank you so much for this post. Can't think of a better or a deeper explanation on pride than this one. Also it was a pleasure hearing it by C. S. Lewis himself.

[@NachalYahu]

Thank you Abba Yahuah for caring so much for your children. Generations of good insight. In Lord Jesus name!

[@marksellers4875]

A loving hammer blow. Grace and peace to you Mr Lewis. Your works live on.

[@ALex-yv8xw]

Praise Jesus 👏 🙌 👏

[@phyllisgrellman4741]

The end said it all, if you think you’re not conceited, indeed you’re very conceited indeed”!

[@williamfigueroa4630]

Pride is self exaltation

[@BigSunshine55]

I was and still mostly am that man who was very conceited indeed. I’m discovering this deep pride in me, and I’m still trying to find the bottom of it. Thanks for hosting the video, and thanks be to God for his work through my life through influences such as C.S. Lewis.

[@BibleTruthsUnveiled]

I've never heard pride explained quite like this before. Lewis's perspective is so profound, especially the part about how we all despise it in others but rarely see it in ourselves. This video has sparked some serious self-reflection. Grateful for this wisdom.

[@Kyjoe502]

I had to listen to this a couple times. It really hits home and opened my eyes to how sinfully proud I am. “The devil loves curing a small fault by giving you a great one.”

[@katiegeyvanpittius7391]

Pride, the best discourse on Pride is by the Desert Father in about 300AD, John Cassian wrote the Spirit of Pride (one of the 8 deadlies). No Christian should skip reading this short document. Pride is what is nowadays called "narcissism', and the other sins you can have mixed in with your virtues, but with pride there is no virtue, pride kills taints and perverts all virtue, rather than be interspered amongst it like anger, sloth etc

[@njcanuck]

What a great commentary on a subject we rarely hear spoken about. Always easier to hear a sermon on a topic where we might say, "oh that doesn't apply to me".

[@cherylwatkins588]

I have never really understood what pride is. I always thought it was thinking highly of yourself and it is but, for me, thinking how other people see me, what they think of me, do I fit in? Someone else being thought more of than me. Thinking I can do things myself and not asking for help. Pride is far more. I've cried and prayed this morning for forgiveness. I am a sinner. I am prideful but now I "get it" I shall seek God, look to my Lord and Saviour and asking the Holy Spirit for wisdom, understanding and His guidance. Without them I can do nothing 🙏❤️

[@Kenny.G63]

Pride always comes, before the fall.

[@bukibassey3509]

I'm so glad I came across this sermon. I especially like the point that the more pride we have, the more we dislike it in others. Also, differentiating between pride and vanity was very instructive.

[@jmartin9785]

So true, l have seen this great affront to mankind all my life, and avowed myself to never be overtaken by it. Pride does truly come before the fall ! Wise man, the world should listen ! 🙏🌈

[@mrchristian8782]

If you think you're not conceited, it means you're very conceited indeed. - C.S Lewis

[@bipbip6626]

Humility is my only fault….😊 One old old friend told me in a time of hardships that true humility was only achieved through humiliation… True Humility cannot be made, home made. A visiting priest disagreed, at first, with this statement. Until i asked him to think of someone humble he knew, who had not gone through humiliation. He paused , then said…. ‘’ hummm , you re right !’’

[@TheJacali]

God, I am so prideful and self focused. Please help me to focus not shaming myself but on Your glory. Please God when I stray please guide me back like the lost and crippled lamb that I am.

[@yungace617]

This one hurt so good. Have a lot to pray about. Thank you Heavenly Father for your endless mercy.

[@elzaberoos2949]

Gosh! What a profound insight....thank you! What is mere man that Father God still keeps on blessing him so much?...please make me humble,Father God.🙏

[@lizzy5637]

Amen 🙏 My prayers too, Lord.

[@IronsharpensIron4]

Beautiful message! We live in an extremely prideful world!! It’s sickening. We work in it and live in it. That’s why it is important to spend time with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ hourly/daily. We must ask Him to search our hearts continuously and to make us like Him. The more we spend time praying to our Father, reading the Bible and fasting; the more we become like Yahweh. Fight the good fight!❤❤❤

[@adeotiwilliams199]

“Pride has no pleasure of having something other than having more of it than another man”

[@marygirard7907]

So incredible in both content and presentation. It goes to the heart. It is wonderful that God saved and used this man for His kingdom.

[@deeflores6203]

C.S. LEWIS SUCH VISION !! WORDS EVEN MORE RELEVANT NOW IN THIS DAY OF WICKEDNESS AND PERVERSION

[@davidmiller4078]

CS Lewis wrote some great stories as well as the Cronicles of Narnia about children discovering a mysterious Wardrobe he wrote an amazing sci fi Trilogy i forgot the name of it but when i read it 40 years ago it blew my mind and definately expanded my horizons He definately knew the philosphical side of thinga

[@jillshepherd4225]

Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, and That Hideous Strength

[@karenbeardwilson]

Always trying to help others to feel at ease, comfortable. Perhaps it is I, that was not at ease. I never plan it. In Union with Jesus. He helps me - I couldn’t stay the course without Him. All the Glory to God. Amen

[@amoseannamalai4506]

Destruction comes in different ways where we least expect it but it leaves a change when taken as a lesson to learn !

[@JasonSchultz-b2h]

Thanks for sharing this! Lewis also said that true "Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less."

[@GloryToTheHighest]

God sent. This is exactly what I was fighting with. Exactly what I thought that those thoughts are.

[@harmoniabalanza]

you and everyone else.

[@milo_thatch_incarnate]

What a good reminder! Thank you for posting this.

[@lilianarowan3571]

This is so true! Our society needs these teachings so much!

[@StmGnr8trU2B]

"According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the *utmost evil,* is Pride. Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are _mere flea bites_ in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: It is _the complete_ _anti-god state of mind."_ CS Lewis "Mere Christianity" _The Great Sin_

[@NinaReviewsThings]

This is truly so wise! Wow! Thank you CS Lewis and thank you for sharing this here on KZbin. Pride truly is scary.

[@rickleech1422]

Have comments been turned off? This is an excellent presentation and is the opposite of what is being pushed on us at this time.

[@donnafoster5215]

Excellent lecture. It’s helpful to listen to a discussion of the problem with pride.

[@gingertervasi2040]

So good! So true! We all need to hear this to humble ourselves and get rid of the entitlement attitude! Fake Christians, feminism it’s just sad!!!

[@debbiegraham5585]

Great, R.I.P. C.S.Lewis

[@DonJessen]

I do like his insight into our Biblical and spiritual journey in life.

[@STMukr]

Pride...I'm figting it every day ...every hour...Lord help me to be humble believer and to listen You .🙏

[@happinessyogateacher]

Brilliant, the very heart of Christian teaching. Let me be humble in realization of this truth…

[@marygomez9240]

I needed to hear this. Thank you.

[@chuckevans2792]

Great teacher! His books are amazing! Thanks, subbed.

[@MO-cf8tl]

This is just brilliant! I’ll watch this over again, thanks!

[@JanetMosquera-b2v]

I ask every day our Heavenly Father to clean my heart and to renew my spirit

[@reflectlove6548]

Powerful lesson thank you!

[@danieleburks3218]

This was needed. God bless this message

[@georgealderson4424]

If Professor Lewis is critical of those who are proud, does not that mean that he is still prouder? If we praise God for anything we do which is worthy of respect, is that still a display of pride? "Without Thee we are not able to praise Thee." Thank you for these videos which are so stimulating and so enjoyable.

[@Bearded923]

Lord help me to be humble in everyting i do each day. I love you and fear you lord. Ty for your son jesus and the holy spirit.

[@A-broken-clay-jar]

A timely reminder that I need. Thank you ❤

[@hugovanderzee4944]

Thanks for posting this 🙏

[@lauraivanakircanski6679]

That was so accurate and thoughtful! I loved it. Thank you so much for sharing it!

[@callycatus]

Thankyou .. very enlightening and needed

[@2ndbar]

Timely words for me. Something to contemplate this week.

[@randymudge7435]

Great discourse and life lesson!

[@marwood1969]

From atheist to God fearing man with a simply astounding level of insight. A work of God, in itself.

[@PrayersfromtheRedwoodForest]

The silence is deafening

[@harmoniabalanza]

Thomas Merton also describes this in depth in New Seeds of Contemplation. Ego stands in the way of joy.

[@sondrabarbee6399]

This insight breaks down pride into its various aspects so as to cause me to realize more fully what in me needs God’s deliverance from that segment of pride which is yet in me which God hates and would have me lay at the foot of the cross to be washed away from me.

[@PCPCRB]

Love it! Amazing insight and wisdom.