My Favourite Lines from Les Miserables

... One day the Bishop arrived at Senez, which is an ancient episcopal city. He was mounted on a donkey. His purse, which was very dry at that moment, did not permit him any other equipage. The mayor of the town came to receive him at the gate of the town, and watched him dismount from his donkey, with scandalized eyes. Some of the citizens were laughing around him. "Monsieur the Mayor," said the Bishop, "and Messieurs Citizens, I perceive that I shock you. You think it very arrogant in a poor priest to ride an animal which was used by Jesus Christ. I have done so from necessity, I assure you, and not from vanity."

I just love, love, love those lines... that is what being Christ-like is all about. Let them laugh! We have our mission, and that is to surrender fully to Christ. No matter how hard, no matter how unpopular, no matter how 'scandalous'! We have to decrease so He can increase; the one who is humble is great.