"If you were truly humble you would not bother about yourself at all. Why should you? You would only be concerned with God and with His will and with the objective order of things and values as they are, and not as your selfishness wants them to be. Consequently you would have no more illusions to defend your moments would be free. You would not need to be hampered with excuses which are really only framed to defend you against the accusation of pride--as if your humility depended on what other people thought of you!"
