Summary from True Spouse:
How to achieve humility of heart:
- Speak not either of your strengths nor weaknesses (except in confession).
- Take no pleasure in others' praise.
- Take no umbrage at correction, even if unmerited.
- "Accept in peace all the contempt and bad treatment that you receive."
- "In the fifth place, you must not only accept humiliations in peace, but must also be glad and exult under them."
Quote, anecdote on humility from same chapter as above:
In his History of Japan, Father Crasset relates that during the last persecution, in consequence of having received an insult without resenting it, a certain Augustinian missionary, though disguised, was instantly taken for a Christian, and cast into prison by the idolaters, who asserted that no one but a Christian could practise such a virtue.
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