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“We have reduced all virtues to one: being nice. And, we measure Jesus by our standard instead of measuring our standard by Him.” For the Christian, explains Peter Kreeft, being virtuous is not a means to the end of pleasure, comfort and happiness. Virtue is a word that means “manly strength.” But how do we know when we are being meek—or just cowardly? When is our anger righteous—and when is it a...

then I do not feel wholly independent of you, above you. The truly proud person couldn’t care less what others think of him. Pride is not first of all thinking too highly of yourself, because it isn’t thinking first of all but willing, just as humility isn’t thinking about yourself in a low way but not thinking of yourself at all. Humility is thinking less about yourself, not thinking less of yourself. Pride is willful arrogance, arrogating to yourself what is really God’s. Pride is not pleasure
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