Good exchange

Relentlessly pursuing holiness and walking in humility are really the same thing!

Holiness is unity with God.  We can't unite with God if our pride gets in the way.

Humility is the "opposing virtue" of the vice of pride. 

We're really pursuing (seeking) unity with God.

Pride gets in the way.
Vanity gets in the way.
We can let our intellect get in the way.
We can let our resentments get in the way.
Our love of comfort.
Our doubts (a form of letting our intellect get in the way). 

Often our pride uses our intellect to distance us from God.

We dress up intellectualisms as our idols.

Our intellect should be used instead to get closer to God.

At some point, because our intellects are puny, we have to use faith to get closer to God. 

So we use everything to get closer to God, intellect, faith, our will, our detachment from our plans, preferences, weak tendencies, etc.

Full court press to get closer to God. Relentlessly up the inclined plane with Him until we die!