Pride

*Pride

“That is a high standard for us, but when we with faith control our tempers and subdue our pride, the Holy Ghost gives His approval, and sacred promises and covenants become sure.”-Elder Eyring, Families Under Covenant, Conference April 2012

“For spirituality to grow stronger and more available, it must be planted in a righteous environment. Haughtiness, pride, and conceit are like stony ground that will never produce spiritual fruit.”-Elder Scott, How to Obtain Inspiration and Revelation for Your Personal Life, Conference April 2012

“When our hearts are filled with pride, we commit a grave sin, for we violate the two great commandments.  Instead of worshipping God and loving our neighbor, we reveal the real object of our worship and love—the image we see in the mirror.”-Elder Uchtdorf, Pride and the Priesthood, Conference October 2012

“In all of our testifying we must avoid arrogance and pride. We should remember the Book of Mormon rebuke to a people who had such pride in the greater things God had given them that they afflicted their neighbors.”-Elder Oaks, Testimony, Conference April 2008

“Do you see the historical pattern emerging again—the pattern of righteousness followed by prosperity, followed by material comforts, followed by greed, followed by pride, followed by wickedness and a collapse of morality—the same pattern we’ve seen again and again within the pages of the Old and New Testaments and the Book of Mormon? More importantly, what impact will the lessons of the past have on the personal choices you make right now and for the rest of your lives?”-Elder Ballard, Learning the Lessons of the Past, Conference April 2009

 “The poorly born may lack self-esteem, or the well-born infected with pride. Pride is the most deadly spiritual virus. In the eternal scheme of things, who is to say which is the most favored.”-Elder Packer, To Young Women and Men, Conference April 1989

“Repentance is turning away from some things, such as dishonesty, pride, anger, and impure thoughts, and turning toward other things, such as kindness, unselfishness, patience, and spirituality. It is “re-turning” toward God."-Elder Anderson, “Repent, That I May Heal You”, Conference October 2009

“We might ask ourselves, living as many of us do in societies that worship possessions and pleasures, whether we are remaining aloof from covetousness and the lust to acquire more and more of this world’s goods. Materialism is just one more manifestation of the idolatry and pride that characterize Babylon. Perhaps we can learn to be content with what is sufficient for our needs.”-Elder Christofferson, Come to Zion, Conference October 2008

“Among the lessons we learn from the Book of Mormon are the cause and effect of war and under what conditions it is justified…. It tells us of the purpose and principles of missionary work. It warns us against pride, indifference, procrastination, the dangers of false traditions, hypocrisy, and unchastity”.-Elder Perry Blessing Resulting from Reading the Book of Mormon, Conference October 2005

 “Jesus, stunningly brilliant, nevertheless allowed His will to be “swallowed up in the will of the Father.” (Mosiah 15:7; see also John 6:38.) Those with pride-hardened minds are simply unable to do this.”-Elder Maxwell, Put Off the Natural Man and Come Off Conqueror, Conference October 1990

Position Statement:

            This is something I have learned I have way too much of, over the last few months. I am grateful for the atonement which allows me to make mistakes and learn from them, I am also very grateful that the Lord is so patient and loving in his ways of teaching me how to let go of my pride and turn to him in every way possible, even with the small things. My eyes are slowly becoming more open to the things I have yet to learn because I am slowly learning how to let go of my pride and search for what God would have me do. Pride is how men fall, pride is what drags them down to the point of misery, and pride is what has destroyed nation upon nation. I pray I will not allow this to happen to myself or my family.