Antonin gilbert sertillanges biography of martin

Our pretensions, our positions, our superior advantages: what does He care about such things? Poor little gnats, strutting about, despising other gnats because their wings are a little less sleek and their feet not quite so thickly furred: of what consequence is all that to him? Whether we are great or small, in his eyes our conditions are equal, and since no one of them corresponds to his nature, did not his honor demand that he should choose the lowest?

Only thus could He manifest His indifference. By identifying himself with the negation of our glories, he would show that he is sufficient unto himself. One can hardly imagine how, in the presence of Nazareth, these thoughts assert themselves. The human condition of the Savior becomes so apparent there that the divine point of view is dazzlingly clear.

Antonin gilbert sertillanges biography of martin: Dominican preacher, apologist, and philosopher; b.

And this nothingness is the best pedestal from which we can leap upward toward the infinite. The Creator of the heavens is troubled by no such false shame. All is great from the viewpoint of him before whom everything is small; and since his heart inclines him to abase himself, he is exquisitely happy and proud to abase himself lower and still lower.

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