Vainglory
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
vainglory · envy and arrogance · false dreams
in the texts
Protrepticus
Empty pride and false hope, to be renounced as part of turning from custom.
" Will you not, then, casting away these empty fancies, renounce custom itself, saying to vainglory, "False dreams, farewell;
Barlaam and Josaphat
Pride in one's own spiritual achievement, warned against among the ascetics.
Envy and arrogance, which are most apt to follow good works, found no place in them.
They who had fled the inhabited world and for this reason dwell in the desert, wishing to show their achievements not to men but to God, from whom also they hope for the rewards of their achievements—knowing well that ascetic labors performed for vainglory are without reward, since they are done for the praise of men and not for God;