Quiz about basic knowledge of Christianity

Pride through Lucifer ( Morning Star), who was cast down for it, crept afterwards into the original Adam, and produced weaknesses and occasions for all vices. For when he thought that he could acquire the glory of the Divine by free will and by his own endeavour, he lost also that which he had received by the grace of the Creator.

Venerable John Cassian of Rome

Pride is the beginning of sin. With it all sin begins and in it it finds its support.

St John Chrysostom

There is no other passion, which would so annihilate all virtues, deprive man of all righteousness and holiness and expose as pride, as the main what and all-destroying disease.

Venerable John Cassian of Rome

Pride is the rejection of God, demonic invention, the contempt of men, the mother of condemnation, the spawn of praise, a sign of the barrenness of the soul, driving away the help of God, the forerunner of the mind's descent, the perpetrator of falls, the cause of demonism, the source of anger, the door of hypocrisy, the stronghold of demons, the repository of sins, the cause of mercy.

The beginning of pride is the end of vainglory; the middle is humiliation of the neighbour, shameless preaching of one's works, self-glorification in the heart, hatred of rebuke; and the end is rejection of God's help, trust in one's own diligence, demonic temper.

Venerable John Climacus

In the "Word on the Gentiles" of St Athanasius the Great there is this passage: "Men have fallen into self-lust, preferring their own contemplation to the divine. This brief definition reveals the very essence of pride: man, for whom God was the centre and object of lust until now, has turned away from Him, has fallen into "self-devotion", has desired and loved himself more than God, has preferred contemplation of himself to divine contemplation.

Priest Alexander Yelchaninov