When you come before our Lord, speak to Him if you can; if you cannot, remain there, show yourself to Him and be not disturbed. (St. F. of Sales.)
Time passes on, and our pains pass with it; but the glory which follows these pains passes not — it is eternal. (St. Bernard.)
The grace of the present moment is perhaps that which will decide our lot for eternity. — (Nepven.)
The truly humble soul ought to be delighted when its humiliation, and not its humility, is manifested. (St. Bernard.)
Humility does not consist in being ignorant of the graces which God bestows upon us, but in referring entirely to Him the gifts received from His hand, and in attributing to ourselves nothing but sin and weakness. (St. John of the Cross.)
Above all, I love these small virtues, meekness of heart, poverty of spirit and simplicity of life; and these more common exercises of visiting the sick, serving the poor, consoling the afflicted and the like, performed without eagerness and with true liberty of spirit. Our arms are not long enough to reach the cedars of
