Take not our thunder from us, but take away our pride …

Those words from Chesterton’s beautiful hymn O God of earth and altar remind us that great men must be humble.

“Bossuet has a sentence which is beyond the comprehension of an apostle who does not realize what must be the soul of his apostolate. It runs: “When God desires a work to be wholly from His hand, he reduces all to impotence and nothingness, and then He acts.” Nothing wounds God so much as pride.”

― Jean-Baptiste Chautard, Soul of the Apostolate