“[T]he more light and appreciation a man has of the goodness and majesty of God, the deeper becomes his knowledge of his own misery and nothingness. Abyss cries to abyss (Ps. 41), the great abyss of the knowledge of God, and of His goodness and infinite majesty, discovers to us the depths of our own misery; and by the beams of this divine light we come to see the specks and motes of our imperfections, and how much we still want of being perfect.”

— Alphonsus Rodriguez, S.J., Practice of Perfection and Christian Virtues (1609)

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