'The Great Sin'

'The Great Sin'

Excerpt from Chapter 8 of 'Mere Christianity' by CS Lewis.


'According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride.  Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere fleabites in comparison: it was through pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete ant-God state of mind.'


'To love and admire anything outside of yourself  is to take one step away from utter spiritual ruin, though we shall not be well so long as we love and admire anything more than we love and admire God'


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Isaiah 14: 12-17





'How you have fallen from heaven,
 O morning star, son of the dawn!
You have been cast down to the earth,
 You who once laid low the nations!

You said in your heart,
  "I will ascend to heaven,
I will raise my throne,
  above the stars of God,
I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly,
  on the utmost heights of the sacred mountain.
I will ascend above the tops of the clouds,
  I will make myself like the Most High"
But you are brought down to the grave,
  to the depths of the pit.

Those who see you stare at you,
  they ponder your fate:
"Is this the man who shook the earth,
  and made kingdoms tremble,
the man who made the world a desert,
  who overthrew its cities,
and would not let his captives go home?"