Note 1054 — Chapter XIX · School-Management.

Matth. 12, 20.—Father Faber remarks in his Spiritual Conferences: “There is a peculiar clearness about characters which have learned to be true after having been deceitful.”—The humiliating consciousness of having been found guilty of deceit, and the yearning desire to be trusted again, forces them to renounce everything like untruth, and to keep guard over themselves, lest they fall again into the old habit.—See the beautiful chapter (XII): “On being true and trusty” in Practical Notes on Moral Training, with preface by Father Gallway, S. J., London, Burns & Oates.