the speck

      Even the smallest slight, if you focus on it enough, can grow into the kind of I’m-better thinking that poisons friendships.          

"Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?” Matthew 7:3

“Pride is the root of all other sins. You can’t stay bitter and angry toward someone unless you feel superior to him.” Tim Keller