How can he be puffed up with the vain talk of men, whose heart in truth is subjected to God? All the world will not move him whom truth hath established in humility.
Neither will he be moved with the tongues of all that praise him, who hath settled his whole hope in God. For behold, they also that speak are all nothing, for they shall pass away with the sound of their words: but the truth of the Lord remaineth for ever (Ps. cxvi, 2).
- Bk. III, ch. xiv.
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When still a novice she heard two members of the Community, one after the other and independently, express their opinion of her. One judgement was the exact opposite of the other, yet both were given with equal good faith and conviction. "Since then," she said, "I have paid no attention to the opinions of others, and this attitude of mind has become habitual, so that praise or blame make no impression on me whatever."
-The Story of a Soul (L'Histoire d'une Âme)
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Adapted from Just For Today(©1943 Burns & Oates)
Nihil Obstat: Reginaldus Phillips, S.T.L.,Censor deputatus
Imprimatur: Edwardus Myers, Vic. Cap.
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