Man must reconcile himself to his natural greatness.... he must not forget that he is a person.
Interpretation
One must acknowledge their inherent value while remaining humble about their identity.
The quote emphasizes the importance of self-awareness and humility. It suggests that while individuals should recognize their own potential and greatness, they must also remain grounded and conscious of their humanity, avoiding arrogance and the loss of personal identity in the face of achievement or status.
In practice
In a motivational speech about personal development.
True freedom is not advanced in the permissive society, which confuses freedom with license to do anything whatever and which in the name of freedom proclaims a kind of general amorality. It is a caricature of freedom to claim that people are free to organize their lives with no reference to moral values, and to say that society does not have to ensure the protection and advancement of ethical values. Such an attitude is destructive of freedom and peace.
Like so many pilgrims before us, we kneel in wonder and adoration before the ineffable mystery which. was accomplished here... In This Child - the Son who is given to us - we find rest for our souls and the true bread that never fails - the Eucharistic Bread foreshadowed even in the name of this town: Bethlehem, the house of bread. God lies hidden in the Child; divinity lies hidden in the Bread of Life
And everything else will then turn out to be unimportant and inessential except this: father, child, and love. And then, looking at the simplest things, we will all say, Could we have not learned this long ago? Has this not always been embedded in everything that is?
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
Man matures through work which inspires him to difficult good.
United with the angels and saints of the heavenly Church, let us adore the most Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist. Prostrate, we adore this great mystery that contains God's new and definitive covenant with humankind in Christ.
The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.
...which causes me to wonder, my own purpose on so many days as humble as the spider's, what is beautiful that I make? What is elegant? What feeds the world?
Iβm losing my taste for everything, including even my taste for finding everything tasteless.
You might say, 'Can't we have a more human Christianity, without the cross, without Jesus, without stripping ourselves?' In this way we'd become pastry-shop Christians, like a pretty cake and nice sweet things. Pretty, but not true Christians.
Many things have gone wrong with the world that God made and... God insists, and insists very loudly, on our putting them right again
I am compelled to fear that science will be used to promote the power of dominant groups rather than to make men happy.
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