In his book, Mere Christianity, Lewis (1952) discusses the concept of humility from the perspective of pride, in such a way as to allow the reader understand what humility is not. For example, in the following statement Lewis attempts to explain that pride causes an individual to possess a superiority complex, which seems to remove them from any awareness of others and places focus only on themselves, “The real black, diabolical Pride comes from when you look down on others so much that you do not care what they think of you,” he continues by speaking specifically about Christians,
“Whenever we find that our religious life is making us feel that we are good- above all, that we are better than someone else – I think we may be sure that we are being acted on, not by God, but by the devil The real test of being in the presence of God is that you either forget about yourself altogether or see yourself as a small, dirty object. It is better to forget about…