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HUMILITY

It appears to me that humility is the truth. I know not whether I am humble, but I know that I see the truth in all things.

COUNSELS AND REMINISCENCES


I have understood what true glory is. He whose Kingdom is not of this world[1] showed me that the only enviable royalty consists in loving to be unknown and esteemed as nothing,[2] and finding our joy in contempt of self. I wished that like the Face of Jesus, mine might be as it were hidden and despised.[3] That none upon earth might esteem me. I thirsted to suffer and to be forgotten.

HIST. D'UNE AME, CH. VII

  1. ↑ John, xviii, 36.
  2. ↑ Imit., I, ii, 3.
  3. ↑ Is., Iiii, 3.
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