Fear of Man

When a reproach is leveled at you, instead of rebelling interiorly or exteriorly like an animal bristling up, observe like a man the bearing of what is said; be impersonal and honest. If the criticism is right and you wrong, do you mean to resist truth?

Having thus drawn your advantage from it, leave the rest to the Lord who judges for you and will do justice in His good time.

"People do not speak ill,” writes St. Augustine, “before the man who does not listen.”