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Often, actually very often, God allows his greatest servants, those who are far advanced in grace, to make the most humiliating mistakes. This humbles them in their own eyes and in the eyes of their fellow men.

Through failure we can learn wisdom and grow in virtue. 

And if we aspire to greatness, humility is the first of the virtues we should cultivate. As the greatest of initiates said,

 

Quia respéxit humilitátem ancíllae suae: Ecce enim ex hoc beátam me dicent omnes generatiónes.

No, I'm not very good at it either.