Jesus, what made You so small? LOVE!
So far from being able to answer for my sins, I cannot even answer for my righteousness!
How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is.
The more I contemplate God, the more God looks on me. The more I pray to him, the more he thinks of me too.
A pretext is never lacking to him who would break with a friend.
Pride only, the chief of all iniquities, can make us treat gifts as if they were rightful attributes of our nature, and, while receiving benefits, rob our Benefactor of His due glory.