Let us define “humility”. Humility is a virtue by which a person has a proper opinion of himself because he knows himself well. This is the virtue that belongs to those who have set their hearts to the climb and have gone from virtue to virtue, from step to step, until they reach the highest peak of humility and gaze upon the Truth from the watch-tower of Zion.
–Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153)
It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
–Saint Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997)
In the silence of the heart God speaks. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you. Then you will know that you are nothing. It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself. Souls of prayer are souls of great silence.
–Saint Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997)
Whoever does not seek the cross of Christ doesn’t seek the glory of Christ.
–Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591)
What we need most in order to make progress is to be silent before this great God with our appetite and with our tongue, for the language He best hears is silent love.
— Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591)
To reach satisfaction in all, desire its possession in nothing. To come to possess all, desire the possession of nothing. To arrive at being all, desire to be nothing. To come to the knowledge of all, desire the knowledge of nothing.
–Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591)
