"Sister Thérèse of the Child Jesus was continually urging me to become more and more humble and little. ⠀ ⠀She talked endlessly about trust, surrender, simplicity, righteousness, and always offered the humility of a little child as an example. ⠀ ⠀One day when I told her I desired more strength and energy to practice virtue, she replied: “If God wants you weak and powerless like a child, do you think you are any less worthy? Accept therefore to stumble at each step, or even fall, and weakly carry your cross. Your soul will draw more from this than if, carried by grace, you easily accomplish heroic feats that will fill your soul with self-satisfaction and pride.”⠀ ⠀ Sister Marié de la Trinité "Counsels and Reminiscences".
“Men are often called intelligent wrongly. Intelligent men are not those who are erudite in the sayings and books of the wise men of old, but those who have an INTELLIGENT SOUL and CAN DISCRIMINATE BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL. They avoid what is sinful and harms the soul; and with deep gratitude to God they resolutely adhere by dint of practice to what is good and benefits the soul. These men alone should truly be called intelligent.” ✝️ St. Anthony the Great.
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