How to Retain Our Good Name While Practicing Humility

Those that profit our souls and are most acceptable to God are those which befall us by accident or through the events of our own particular vocation and condition of life. For we do not choose them ourselves, but instead have received them from the hand of God whose choice is always better than our own. Many of these things that I have said to you may seem difficult in theory, but trust me, they will be sweeter than sugar or honey when you put them into practice.