““When we realize truly what we have to be, and what we have to do, we become inevitably 'poor in spirit'. That in turn leads to that second state in which, realizing our own sinfulness and our own true nature, realizing that we are so helpless because of the indwelling of sin within us, and seeing the sin even in our best actions, thoughts and desires, we mourn and we cry out with the great apostle, 'O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?' But here, I say, is something which is still more searching-'Blessed are the meek'.””
