Just what [Nietzsche] phone calls slave morality is to your strictly spite-morality; and therefore spite-morality provided the latest brands to all or any ideals. Thus erection dysfunction, which gives no reprisal, turned into goodness; craven baseness turned humility; submission in order to your who had been dreaded turned into obedience; incapacity to say yourself turned resistance to assert oneself, turned into forgiveness, passion for one’s enemies. Heartache turned a significant difference – Georg Brandes
Humility and you will ascetic difficulty free a person out-of all the sin, to your you to cuts from passions of your own heart, additional that from you. Here’s what the brand new privileged David indicates when he prays so you’re able to God, saying, “Research on my humility and you will my personal toil, and you may forgive all of the my personal sins” (Ps. ). – Maximus The latest Confessor