More Than the Great and Famous

'The great saints took such keen delight 

in little acts of simplicity and humility

in order to hide themselves and defend themselves from vainglory.  

Such acts were found more pleasing in God's sight 

than the great and famous deeds

of many others, performed with little love of God.'

St.  Francis de Sales, Treatise on the Love of God Book II, chapter 5

Painting:  Jakub Schikanede Plecka (1887)