God has placed a desire for himself in every person.
"You have made us for yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in you" (St. Augustine).
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"The pride system tends to intensify the self-hate against which it is supposed to be a defense, since any failure to live up to one's tyrannical shoulds or of the world to honor one's claims leads to feelings of worthlessness." Bernard J. Paris, Ph.D.
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