Patience attains All that it strives for. He who has God Finds he lacks nothing: God alone suffices.

How is it, Lord, that we are cowards in everything save in opposing thee?

We may think it humility not to realize that the Lord is bestowing gifts upon us. Let us understand very, very clearly, how this matter stands. God gives us these gifts for no merit of ours. Let us be grateful to His Majesty for them, for, unless we recognize that we are receiving them, we shall not be aroused to love Him. And it is a most certain thing that, if we remember all the time that we are poor, the richer we find ourselves, the greater will be the profit that comes to us and the more genuine our humility.

Christ does not force our will, He only takes what we give Him. But He does not give Himself entirely until He sees that we yield ourselves entirely to Him.

Let nothing disturb thee, let nothing affright thee. All things are passing. Patience obtains all things. He who has God has everything - God alone suffices.

True perfection consists in the love of God and our neighbour, and the better we keep both these commandments, the more perfect we shall be.

Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost.