Another excellent 500-year-old prayer for us to pray today:
Father God, The greatest vanity is the evil plague of empty self-glory, because it draws one away from true glory and robs one of heavenly grace. For when a man is pleased with himself he displeases You, when he pants after human praise he is deprived of true virtue. But it is true glory and holy exultation to glory in You and not in self, to rejoice in Your name rather than in one’s own virtue, and not to delight in any creature except for Your sake.
Let Your name, not mine, be praised.
Let Your work, not mine, be magnified.
Let Your holy name be blessed, but let no human praise be given to me.
You are my glory. You are the joy of my heart.
In You I will glory and rejoice all the day, and for myself I will glory in nothing but my infirmities.
–Thomas à Kempis
Amen. May this be my heart’s cry today.