I am really happy when a person doing work for me takes pride in what he or she does. The work will be good. We speak of self-actualisation and personal fulfilment which require a certain sense of personal pride. All of this gives cause to heed D. Sayers warning, the devilish strategy of Pride is that it attacks us, not in our weakest points, but in our strongest. It is pre-eminently the sin of the noble mind.
Pride easily cloaks itself in the shadow of goodness.
It devours most, if not all of us. If we go way back to the story of Adam and Eve, we find pride front and centre. Ah the pinnacle of arrogance - the creature wants to be like God. At its heart, pride is a sin of comparison. It gathers momentum when we compare our strengths with the weaknesses of others.