Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you need is not a sceptre but a hoe.
Bernard of ClairvauxIf then you are wise, you will show yourself rather as a reservoir than as a canal. For a canal spreads abroad water as it receives it, but a reservoir waits until it is filled before overflowing, and thus communicates, without loss to itself, its superabundant water. In the Church at the present day, we have many canals, few reservoirs.
Bernard of Clairvaux