Sublime

If any man thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself. Letter of Paul to the Galatians, 6[.3].

My sorrow may bear involuntary witness against you at the judgement Throne; but my angry thoughts or my reproaches never will, I know!

If you lend money to my people, to the poor among you, you shall not deal with them as a creditor; you shall not exact interest from them. 26If you take your neighbor’s cloak in pawn, you shall restore it before the sun goes down; 27for it may be your neighbor’s only clothing to use as cover; in what else shall that person sleep? And if your neighb

Prayer O Lord, you have said that those who cry in this life, you will console in the next life. Grant to me, then, the grace to cry for my sins, give me a truly contrite and humble heart, grant me through your infinite mercy that spirit of sorrow for sin that you promised to change into eternal joy in heaven. Amen.

Prayer O God, grant me the grace to judge myself as I should. Remember your promise that if I judge myself, you will not judge me. Fill my heart with humility and charity so that I will not pardon myself, but that I will always pardon others.

“Nothing is more deceitful,” said Darcy, “than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.”

and to prefer, if you must, to speak haltingly, like Publius Vinicius.° When someone asked Asellius how Vinicius’s speech went, he said, “Bit by bit.”

If it assume my noble father's person,

Think no unfair evil of her, pray: she had no wicked plots, nothing sordid or mercenary; in fact, she never thought of money except as something necessary which other people would always provide.