Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall. (Proverbs 16:18)
“...Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall. (Proverbs 16:18)...”
I try to live by this, it is always forefront in my mind.
James 4:6 (KJV)
But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
Philippians 4:12 (KJV)
I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.