If we are proud of our talents we betray our lack of gratitude to God.
Faith and hope...are the wings by which our souls, rising above the world, are lifted up to God.
It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"! (Institutio III.2.3)
... let everyone regard himself as the steward of God in all things which he possesses.
The Human heart is an idol factory.
The evil in our desires typically does not lie in what we want, but that we want it too much.