Speech That Manifests Fear (4)

No one likes a proud man. And by nature all men are proud. It is the very pride of man that he hates a proud man. The hatred of pride in the natural man is not a spiritual virtue. In the natural man hatred of the proud is the reaction of one carnally proud heart and mind to the boastful and haughty deeds and words of another. Because the natural heart is itself proud, it cannot stand to hear some other proud heart boast of being more than itself. No one likes a proud man. And by nature all...