Dorothy Day said, "Much as we want to know ourselves, we do not really know ourselves. Do we really want to see ourselves as God sees us, or even as our fellow human beings see us? Could we bear it, weak as we are? You know that feeling of contentment in which we sometimes go about, clothed in it, as it were, like a garment, content with the world and with ourselves . . . We do not want to be given that clear inward vision which discloses to us our most secret faults. In the Psalms there is that prayer, Deliver me from my secret sins. We do not really know how much pride and self-love we have until someone whom we respect or love suddenly turns against us. Then some sudden affront, some sudden offense we take, reveals to us in all its glaring distinctness our self-love, and we are ashamed."
"I am the Lord your God: hear my voice." (See Ps 81:11 and 19a)