Let Your Old Age

Painting: Ernst Karl Georg Zimmermann

You Know What You Are

Recapturing Great

Painting: Frank Weston Benson, Calm Morning 1904

As Waters Flow

In the End

Whoever Humbles

The Most Humiliating Mistakes

'God allows His greatest servants to make the most humiliating mistakes. 

This humbles them in their own eyes and in the eyes of their fellow men. 

It prevents them from seeing and taking pride in the graces God bestows on them.'

St. Louis de Montfort

Painting: Théodule-Augustin Ribot, Still Life with Pumpkin, Plums, Cherries, Figs and Jug

One Secret Work

"God is more pleased by one work, however small,

done secretly, without desire that it be known, 

than a thousand done with desire that men know of them."  

St. John of the Cross

Painting:  Andrea Commodi, Young Woman in the Kitchen

According To...

 

"Mysteries in religion are measured

by the proud according to their own capacity;

by the humble, according to the power of God.

The humble glorify God for them.

The proud exalt themselves against them."

Cardinal John Henry Newman



Painting: JamesTossit, Il guérit les boiteux

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) 

Humility

'Humility is to the other virtues

 what the chain is in a rosary. 

Take away the chain and the beads are scattered;

remove humility, and all virtues vanish.'  

St. John Vianney

Painting: Henry  Guillaume Schlesinger, 1868

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