Let God be God…
God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.
–Meister Eckhart (1260-1328)
Grace is from God…
Grace is from God, and works in the depth of the soul whose powers it employs. It is a light which issues forth to do service under the guidance of the Spirit. The Divine Light permeates the soul, and lifts it above the turmoil of temporal things to rest in God. The soul cannot progress except with the light which God has given it as a nuptial gift; love works the likeness of God into the soul.
–Meister Eckhart (1260-1328)
Prove yourself humble…
Allow no pride to dwell in you, but prove yourself so humble and lowly that all may walk over you and trample upon you as dust in the streets!
–Thomas a Kempis (1380-1471)
The grace of God…
When the grace of God comes to us we can do all things, but when it leaves us, we become poor and weak, abandoned, as it were, to affliction. Yet, in this condition we should not become dejected or despair. On the contrary, we should calmly await the will of God and bear whatever befalls us in praise of Jesus Christ; for after winter comes the summer, after night comes the day, and after the storm, a great calm.
— Thomas a Kempis (1380-1471)
Be filled with humility…
He who loves perfection must be filled with humility like a lamp with oil: for lamps are full within and give light without, and their influence makes itself felt in whatever direction they are turned.
–Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)
Humility matters more…
Self-knowledge is so important that, even if you were raised right up to the heavens, I should like you never to relax your cultivation of it; so long as we are on this earth, nothing matters more to us than humility.
–Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
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