“For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you.” (Romans 12:3 NIV)
We have an inborn persisting tendency to attribute to ourselves the successes of our spiritual life, the resistance we offer to temptation, the devotion we achieve, the discipline we keep, and the good works we do. Surely we thank God for all of that, but in our heart of hearts we congratulate ourselves on our exploits, and secretly worship our sword and bow. We take as done by us what is done by God in us; even obvious graces from heaven stick to the soul and seem after some time to be connatural to us and springing from us. That is the spiritual pride of the worst kind, and it really takes hold of the soul, it is enough to stop any spiritual progress at all. The disease is as dangerous as it is common.
-- Carlos G. Valles in “Faith for Justice”
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