When I am paid a compliment, I must compare.... : Quote by Pope John Paul I

“ When I am paid a compliment, I must compare myself with the little donkey that carried Christ on Palm Sunday. And I say to myself: If that little creature, hearing the applause of the crowd, had become proud and had begun -- jackass that he was -- to bow his thanks left and right like a prima donna, how much hilarity he would have aroused! Don't act the same! ”

Pope John Paul I
  • From : Illustrissimi: Letters from Pope John Paul I
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