Humility must necessarily be the base of our charitable actions. In seeing and misery of the poor, in confronting injustices, physical and oral downfalls, a Lady of Charity remembers that the spiritual and temporal goods that she possesses are purely gifts of God. In her dealings with the poor, far from untactfully making them feel her social superiority, she will be humbled in imitation of our Divine Master: "Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal to God; but emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of man and in habit found as a man." She looks to God alone as the witness to her charity, her labors and her sacrifices. She does not forget that God desires that her left hand should not know what her right hand does. She shuns praise, willingly takes second place in the good that is done, seeks to remain in the background, and when ingratitude is manifested, accepts it without resentment.