So much more is to be had from this Gospel than what was superficially written above. 

And Thomas...whose lack of faith (and excess of pride in his own intellect and sense experiences) kept Him from benefiting from what others had come to know already.....

How does our own pride in our opinion, our supposed intellectual process, our own lack of faith not just keep us from greater intimacy with Our Lord, but how do these personal defects of ours KEEP OTHERS from drawing closer to God by our influence on them.