"El otro día decía Celina: "¿Cómo puede estar Dios en una hostia tan pequeña?" Y la pequeña contesto: "Pues no es tan extraño, porque Dios es todopod… - Thérèse of Lisieux

My mortifications consisted in breaking my will, which was always ready to impose itself; in holding my tongue instead of answering back; in doing little things for others without hoping to get anything in return; in not slumping back when I was sitting down; etc., etc. .

If a little flower could speak, it seems to me that it would tell us quite simply all that God has done for it, without hiding any of its gifts. It would not, under the pretext of humility, say that it was not pretty, or that it had not a sweet scent, that the sun had withered its petals,or the storm bruised its stem, if it knew that such were not the case.

If my little acts of virtue can be mistaken for imperfections, imperfections can just as easily be mistaken for virtue.