The Saviour has commanded us to count the cost. Until men can see that holiness is more to be desired than all which they are required to give up, they will never obtain it. There is no pride in Heaven. But there is purity. So we may have inward and outward purity, without pride.
Pride is a result of the fall.
It had no place in Eden. 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.