Pride Has God Himself for Its Enemy

How great is the evil of pride, that it rightly has as its adversary no angel and no opposing virtue, but God himself! For it should be noted that it is never said of those entangled in other sins that they have God opposing them. I mean, it is not said that God opposes “the gluttonous, the sexually immoral, the hot-tempered or the greedy,” but only “the proud.” For those sins rebound only on those who commit them, or seem to be committed against those who share in them, that is, against other men. But this one has to do more properly with God, and so it is especially right that it should have him opposed to it.