Maxims and counsels of St. Francis de Sales for every day of the year

by Saint de Sales Francis

298.

How beautiful it is to renounce esteem of self, to renounce what we are, our own will, all complacency in the creature, and, in short, all of self. We must bury this human self in an eternal abandonment, that we may never more see or know it as we have seen and known it.