ON  EMPTY  CONFIDENCE

A man is a fool if he pins his hopes either on men or on things. For love of Jesus Christ you must be prepared to be servant to other people, and to do without the world’s possessions.

Do not make a stand on your own resources, but build your hopes on God. Do the best you can and God will support your good intentions.

Do not rely on your own experience or anyone’s worldly wisdom, but rely on the grace of God, who helps the lowly … and humbles the presumptuous.

Do not glory in riches, if you have them, nor in powerful friends; but glory in God who provides all, and above all, desires to impart himself.

Do not exult in a well-formed, beautiful body, for it only needs a little sickness to spoil and shatter it.

Do not let your abilities and mental powers make you pleased with yourself, or you may displease God to whom belong all the gifts given you by nature. 

Do not think yourself better than others, or God may think you worse, for He knows what lies in man.

Do not let your good works fill you with pride, because God does not judge like man. Men are often pleased by the things that displease Him.

If you have some good gift, believe that others have better gifts, and so you will humble yourself.

It does not harm you to think yourself inferior to every other person, but it does a great harm if you think yourself superior even to one other person.

The humble person knows continual peace, but in the heart of the proud there is often jealousy and discontent.