God gave you your personality and talents, etc. God wants you to use your talents, such as can be seen in the parable of the talents, which I think does literally refer to gifts or talents, but God doesn't want us to get prideful about our abilities.
"If we're Christian we submit ourselves to the Holy Spirit... get off the prideful ladder, [and] God can bless that marriage and restore those relationships".
We have nothing to get puffed up or prideful about.
Not to mention the problems this prideful action creates for his wife, Gloria Geraldine Jamess), who is accustomed to getting her regular front table at restaurants without having to ask and going on clothes-shopping sprees without having to pay.
I'm a prideful person, but pride can get you in trouble sometimes.
It's a prideful thing when you get out there when all these people are cheering for you.
She is happy to point out that when she went mano a mano with Walter Cronkite to bag both Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin in 1977 (after a behind-the-scenes feat of personal diplomacy that is described here in prideful detail), her ABC story got onto the air seconds before CBS showed its version.
"Cosine, Tangent, Hyperbolic Sine, Three point one four one five nine E to the X DY DX Sliderule, Slipstick, Tech, Tech, Tech!" "I am a tech geek first," Fruchterman likes to say, "not a social activist," which is about as prideful as the Caltech grad gets, but there's no question that social problems own his imagination and purpose in life.
But we should also not become foolishly prideful.
This is especially true with particularly prideful or egotistical enemies, who might do well to get knocked down a peg or two.
