For modern man, ... pride reveals itself in impatience, which is an unwillingness to bear the pain of discipline. ... In effect his becomes a deification of his own will; man is not making himself like a god but is taking himself as he is and putting himself in the place of God. (Richard Weaver)

For modern man, ... pride reveals itself in impatience, which is an unwillingness to bear the pain of discipline. ... In effect his becomes a deification of his own will; man is not making himself like a god but is taking himself as he is and putting himself in the place of God.

Richard Weaver

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