Prideful Humility

There is a Bohemianism of the religious life among young people as well as Bohemianism in the labor movement, and it smacks of sentimentality.  The gesture of being dirty because the outcast is dirty, of drinking because he drinks, of staying up all night and talking, because that is what one's guests from the streets want to do, in participating in his sin from a prideful humility, this is self-deception indeed!--Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness, pg. 255