Gregory the Great: “why do the words of men on earth agitate you”

 

 
“… why do the words of men on earth agitate you, who have fixed your heart on heaven?? Paul, a leader of good men, says, ‘Let every man prove his own work, and so shall he have glory in himself, and not in another’ (Gal. 6:4). For, if we are rejoiced by praises and broken down by detractions, we have set our glory not in ourselves, but in the mouth of others.”

St. Gregory the Great

 

 

 

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