Intellectual Pride

"Every man has a man within him who must die. For Augustine that man was the one whose spiritual being was occluded by his physical being. For me - and I suspect for many modern believers or would-be believers - the problem is not physical, but nevertheless more palpable than we allow ourselves to admit, and the tension within us that seems so urgently and singularly "modern" is in fact the oldest sin in the Book: intellectual pride."

Christian Wiman, My Bright Abyss