It may be very difficult to imagine living a life in which we care more about what God thinks of us than what others think. Vainglory may have more power in human life than we often recognize. What practices reveal and counter its power? Two spiritual disciplines in particular pull some weight against vainglory—silence and solitude. Richard Foster suggests letting our lives and actions speak for themselves by silencing away all our self-made “spin.”30 Instead of elbowing into