“Humility is the road to exaltation.”

“It would be of no advantage to ascend in status if a man did not also grow in merit.”

“In this world a man sometimes obtains earthly goods by contentiousness and deceit, but heavenly riches are obtained by meekness…Blessed are the meek: for they shall possess the land.”

“Men are subject to many failings, so that he who is superior in one respect, is or may be inferior in another.”

“Whosoever shall humble himself as this little child, the same is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven; for by how much a man is humble now, by so much shall he be exalted in the kingdom of heaven.”

“Humility makes us honor others and esteem them better than ourselves, in so far as we see some of God’s gifts in them.”

“”Pride is accounted the common mother of all sins.”

“To fall away from reverence for Him is the first part of pride.”

“Nature is not sufficient, and grace is necessary.”

The shores of silence do but keep still,

and calm the heart of man.

Shores of unknowing, boundless

yet being in themselves shores of hope;

As the rushing waves of life do turn and twist,

pull and roll, so too the thoughts of love.

Endless yet with the hope of ending at the final moment

of conscience, where You do exist in silent love.

So the depth of my conscience calls forth, yes

it shouts into the depths of silence; 

No echo, only accepting emptiness, fullness.

Deep is calling on deep.