Just as meekness is in all our virtues, so is pride in all our sins. Whatever its momentary and alluring guise, pride is the enemy, 'the first of the sins.' One reason to be particularly on guard against pride is that 'the devilish strategy of Pride is that it attacks us, not in our weakest points, but in our strongest. It is preeminently the sin of the noble mind.' Not only of the noble mind, but also of the semi-righteous.
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Listen to these wounds of pain put in the form of questions to me by a young woman who had had two abortions 'I wonder about the spirits of those I had aborted, if they were there, if they were hurt I was under three months each time, but a mother feels life before she feels movement.' 'I wonder if they are lost and alone' 'I wonder if they will ever have a body' 'I wonder if I will ever have a chance again to bring those spirits back as mine' Alas, brothers and sisters, 'wickedness never was happiness' (Alma 4110).
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When we dont like to face up to hard facts, we use soft words. We do not speak about killing a baby within the womb, but about 'termination of potential life.' Words are often multiplied to try to cover dark deeds.
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