Abandonment

“O Posterity! Holy and sacred stay of the unhappy and the oppressed; thou who art just, thou who art incorruptible, thou who findest the good man, who unmaskest the hypocrite, who breakest down the tyrant, may thy sure faith, thy consoling faith never, never abandon me!”

“O humble and lowly Saviour, grant me the knowledge of the true Christian, and that I may willingly despise myself; let me learn the lesson so incomprehensible to the mind of man, that I must die to myself by an abandonment that shall produce true humility.”

“Destruction did not cease with my abandonment of my realm, no more than people would cease to dream should you abandon yours.”

“Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.”