It has been said that the fanatic is the one who redoubles his efforts while having lost sight of his end. We have become very adept at noticing almost everything that will affect our lifestyle except the wounded and needy student sitting before us on a daily basis. And we do this by awakening them to the goodness of the Lord. And what better way to accomplish this than by allowing the student to see his goodness mirrored in our own gaze, that is, allowing them to discover, in and through our own countenance, that they are loveable and indeed loved by God. In other words, it is very difficult to do this when we take ourselves too seriously and forget that we are here for a short time only and that the daunting specter of the grave is not far off from where we are standing now.
Arrogance is the egoism of inordinate self-importance.
The root meaning of love consists in the acknowledgment of absolute significance for another being. Love, on the other hand, beholds the genuine and absolute significance of the 'other'. But this marks only the beginning of the spiritual life, a point beyond which very few seem to move. I must learn to love God more than I love my own happiness. Solovyov seems to miss this, but Maritain does not.