But thou sayest that thou canst not eschew such stirrings of pride, for oft thou feelest them against thy will, and therefore thou holdest them no sin; or, if they be sin, they be nought but venial. As to this, I answer that the feeling of these stirrings of pride, or of any other sin, which spring either out of the corruption of this foul image or by incasting or suggestion of the enemy, is no sin so far as to the feeling of them. Nevertheless, when by negligence and thy own blindness this feeling is received unwarily in thy thoughts, and turned into love and liking, then is there sin in it more or less according to the measure of this love, sometime venial and sometime deadly. (John Climacus)

Feeling pride is no sin, but loving and liking prideful feeling is potentially deadly.

Pride is, at least, a sense of satisfied self-sufficiency; a confidence in my own ability to discern and resolve.

Pride can become an adoration of the self that excludes thanks and praise to God.

Offering thanks and praise to God is the best discipline for keeping pride in its place.

And in offering thanks and praise to God we experience a joy far beyond that of self-sufficiency.