It should have none in all our hearts. Seek then for that holiness which roots it out entirely. You may make a consecration to the Lord ever so full in other respects, but if it does not include the giving up of your pride in all its forms, you will not get an experience which will enable you to do the will of God. And just in proportion as you give up pride and long for deliverance from it, just in that proportion will God take it from your heart. Holiness implies deliverance from pride, as manifested in the provision which we make for our children.
Pride is one of the sad effects of the fall.
It will manifest itself in some form or other in our children, until they are brought completely under the influence of divine grace. But parents, who are wholly sanctified to God, will not give it any encouragement. It needs no fostering. Cut it back all you may, and with each coming season it will put forth new vigor, and manifest the utmost tenacity of life. You are not fully delivered from pride.