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[Title] Understanding Pride and Choosing Humility
[Kicker] We are encouraged to be humble, but to do this we must first understand pride and its
consequences and then choose to be humble.
[Highlights of the source article]
Pride is a sin that we constantly struggle with. Despite our valiant efforts to be humble
[https://www.lds.org/manual/true-to-the-faith/humility?lang=eng], pride always seems to slip in.
Perhaps this is because we dont fully understand pride and how it can manifest itself. Prides
manifestations and consequences are defined in President Ezra Taft Bensons
[https://www.lds.org/manual/teachings-of-presidents-of-the-church-ezra-taft-benson/the-life-andministry-of-ezra-taft-benson?lang=eng] April 1989 general conference talk Beware of Pride.
[https://www.lds.org/general-conference/1989/04/beware-of-pride?lang=eng] He explains that
pride is a very misunderstood sin, and many are sinning in ignorance.
Manifestations of Pride
Pride is generally understood to mean self-centered, but President Benson points out that the
heart of pride is enmity toward God and enmity toward our fellowmen. He defines enmity as
hatred or opposition. These are some other manifestations of pride:
Being competitive
Taking offense
Finding faults
Being contentious
Holding grudges
Being defensive
Consequences of Pride
The consequences of pride are grave and can help motivate us to expel pride from our lives:
Loss of independence
Bondage to the world
Divorce
Loss of the Spirit
Halt in progression
Lack of unity
Choose to Be Humble
Humility is the antidote to pride. President Benson encourages us to choose to be humble and
expresses his belief in our capability of doing so. We can choose to be humble by doing things
that eliminate the manifestations of pride in our lives:

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[Link to the source article] Read, watch, or listen to President Bensons talk Beware of
Pride [https://www.lds.org/general-conference/1989/04/beware-of-pride?lang=eng] to learn
more about how pride manifests itself and how to choose to be humble.
Source: lds.org [http://www.lds.org]
[Byline] Rachel Cannon, Mormon Insights
Find more insights
Take a look at President Dieter F. Uchtdorfs talk on Pride in the Priesthood.
[https://www.lds.org/liahona/2010/11/pride-and-the-priesthood?lang=eng]
Read Kim B. Clarks BYU speech Are Ye Stripped of Pride.
[https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/kim-b-clark_ye-stripped-pride/]
Check out the Mormon Channel Q&A episodes Pride
[https://www.mormonchannel.org/listen/series/the-mormon-channel-qa-audio/pride-episode-22]
and Humility. [https://www.mormonchannel.org/listen/series/the-mormon-channel-qaaudio/humility-epiosde-14]
Learn about humility and love by watching this short video. [https://www.lds.org/medialibrary/video/2012-05-8210-humility-and-love?lang=eng]
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