The Pride

Thomas Aquinas - In order to overcome their pride, god punishes certain people by allowing them to fall into the sins of flesh, which even though in actuality before god they are less grievous but in human terms it is more shameful, from this indeed the gravity of pride is made manifest , for just as a wise physician in order to cure the disease allows the patient to contract on lesser one that is less dangerous, so is the sin of pride shown to be more grievous by the very fact that has a remedy god allows some people fall into lesser sins in order to waken them to the deeper sin of pride.