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““It sounds terribly spiritual to say ‘God led It sounds terribly spiritual to say ‘God led me’, but I am always suspicious of a person me’, but I am always suspicious of a person who implies that he has a ‘personal’ who implies that he has a ‘personal’ pipeline to God. When no one else senses pipeline to God. When no one else senses that what the person suggests is the will of that what the person suggests is the will of God, then we had better be careful. God God, then we had better be careful. God has been blamed for the most outlandish has been blamed for the most outlandish things by people who have confused their things by people who have confused their own inverted pride with God's will.”own inverted pride with God's will.”

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C. S. LewisC. S. Lewis"There is one vice of which no man in the "There is one vice of which no man in the world is free. ... The vice I am talking about world is free. ... The vice I am talking about is Pride or Self-conceit. .... is Pride or Self-conceit. .... Pride leads to Pride leads to every other viceevery other vice. ... A proud man is . ... A proud man is always always looking down on things and peoplelooking down on things and people: and, of : and, of course, as long as you are looking down, course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you cannot see something that is above you. ... you. ... Pride is a spiritual cancerPride is a spiritual cancer: it eats up : it eats up the very possibility of love, or the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense." contentment, or even common sense."

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