Painting: Ernst Karl Georg Zimmermann

Painting: Frank Weston Benson, Calm Morning 1904

'God allows His greatest servants to make the most humiliating mistakes.  This humbles them in their own eyes and in the eyes of ...

"God is more pleased by one work, however small, done secretly, without desire that it be known,  than a thousand done with des...

  "Mysteries in religion are measured by the proud according to their own capacity; by the humble, according to the power of...

'The great saints took such keen delight  in little acts of simplicity and humility in order to hide themselves and defend thems...

'Humility is to the other virtues  what the chain is in a rosary.  Take away the chain and the beads are scattered; remove hum...