March 28th
Book Three, Chapter 50
How a Desolate Person Ought to Offer Himself Into the Hands of God

Suffer me not to judge according to the sight of the outward eyes, nor to give sentence according to the hearing of the ears of ignorant men; but to determine upon matters both visible and spiritual with true judgment and, above all things, ever to seek Your good will and pleasure.

The senses of men are often deceived in giving judgments; and the lovers of this world are deceived in loving only visible things.  How is a man a whit the better for being reputed greater by man?

The deceitful deceive the deceitful, the vain deceive the vain, the blind the blind, the weak the weak, as often as he extols him; and, in truth, rather confounds him, while he vainly praises him.

For how much soever each one is in Your eyes, so much is he and no more, says the humble Saint Francis.