Pride of
life: to want to succeed everywhere, to choose
newly-invented words,
to seem brilliant in the pulpit, or in talks to
the ordinands, and
in catechetical instructions. And why? What are
we looking for in
all that? Do you want to know? It’s ourselves. We want people to
talk about us, we’re looking for praise;
we want it said that
we’re a great success, are working wonders, we want to be exalted.
That’s the point. In short, that’s preaching ourselves and
not
Jesus Christ or souls. (8 June 1658; SV XII, 20-21)
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