Wonderful article by a wonderful theologian.

I found this, too:

"A proud person becomes FURIOUS if you hurt his feelings, or if you say something that impinges on his pride. And it can be the most silly, non-sensical thing that he becomes enraged. If you, somehow, cross him, his feelings are hurt. But when there's something really serious, when there's blasphemy and sacrilege going on all around, he won't say a word! He won't say a word. And perhaps he won't say a word out of fear, because he's afraid of humiliating himself. People will laugh at him because he's standing up for Our Lord. See, pride actually makes us, spiritually, extremely weak. It may make us, in a worldly sense, strong and bold, and so on. But in a spiritual sense, it makes us impotent. It's terrible. But the person who is meek and humble of heart, in a worldly sense he may seem to be very mild, and yielding, because he's not always asserting his opinion on things, as though it were the end of the world if he didn't get his way. But when it comes down to standing up for what he knows is right, it's like a pride of lions - nothing can stop him. Even unto death he'll stand up for what he believes is the right thing."

[Fr. William Jenkins, Wes Steele call-in program, probably in mid-July 2007, wftsradio.com]