“The proud man who trusts in himself may well undertake nothing, but the humble man is all the braver that he knows his own helplessness, and his courage waxes in proportion to his low opinion of himself, because all his trust is in God, Who delights to show forth His Power in our weakness, His Mercy in our misery.”
Source:ΓΏ St. Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life, Random House, Inc., 2002.