[GreensKeeperWillie]

Pride is the first ingredient to all sin.

Or, as Obama said in this 2004 interview:

FALSANI: "What is sin?" OBAMA: "Being out of alignment with my values." FALSANI: "What happens if you have sin in your life?" OBAMA: "I think it's the same thing as the question about heaven. In the same way that if I'm true to myself and my faith that that is its own reward; when I'm not true to it, it's its own punishment."

[1010RD]

Every sin casts the shadow of ingratitude.

[ravenwolf]

Pride is the first ingredient to all sin.

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I believe that to be true among believers.

Proverbs 16
5 Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the Lord: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.

18 Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

When a believer hits rock bottom you can bet he has been up there at the top among the proud.