Notes from the Underground

“If anyone takes a stand on his own righteousness alone, and thinks to redeem himself, he labors in vain and to no purpose. For every self-opinion of one\'s own righteousness in the last day will be manifested as nothing but filthy rags, as the prophet Isaiah says: \'All our righteousness is as filthy rags (Is. 64:6).\'”

— St. Macarius