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John 15:5 I am the vine, you are the branches. Those who abide in me and I in them bear much fruit because apart from me you can do nothing.
“All Glory to God”. It is an empathetic confession of our nothingness. He, Jesus, is everything. We, without him, are worth nothing: Nothing.
Our vainglory would be just that: vainglory; it would be sacrilegious theft; the “I’ should not appear anywhere.
Without me you can do nothing, our Lord has told us. And he has said it so that you and I won’t credit ourselves with successes that are his. Josemaria Escriva - The Way