'Sometimes it will be a cross... to keep silence, to receive correction, admonitions, penances, to be in want of something, to suffer little daily pains without speaking of them...
It is a good and most useful cross to bear with our neighbor, to subject ourselves to great modesty, and a thousand other practices of daily occurrence.
These are the crosses you have to carry and not only to carry, but to carry joyfully.'
St. Jane de Chantal
Painting: Poynter, A Day Dream, in US public domain
