“Is it wrong to pray for God to make me more successful so that I can be more humble?”

If "knowledge puffs up," then we professors are in ever-present danger of having egos resembling threatened blow fish.
"Pascal's Prayer,", Robert J. Marks II, 2006-10-06, 2010-04-22 http://www.okstatefcfs.org/ministryminutes/10_9_2006Marks.htm,

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