Well, be like that little child; by the practice of every virtue keep on ever lifting your little foot to climb the steps of sanctity, and do not imagine that you will be able to mount even the first! No; but good will is all God requires of you. From the top of those steps He is watching you with love; and won by your unavailing efforts He will Himself soon come down, and taking you in His arms will bear you away to His Kingdom, never more to quit Him. But if you cease to lift your little foot He will leave you a long time on earth."
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The only means of making rapid
progress in the path of Love is to remain
always very little; that is what I have
done; so now I can sing with our Father
St. John of the Cross:
And stooping so low, so low,
I rose still higher and higher
And thus I attained my end.
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