“An occasional effort even of all ordinary holiness may accomplish great acts of sacrifice, or bear severe pressure of unwanted trial, especially if it be the subject of observation. But constant discipline in unnoticed ways, and the spirit’s silent unselfishness, becoming the hidden habit of life, give to it its true saintly beauty; and this is the result of care and lowly love in little things. Perfection is attained most readily by this constancy of religious faithfulness in all minor details of life, consecrating the daily efforts of self-forgetting love.”
T. T. CARTER
“Whoso neglects a thing which he suspects he ought to do, because it seems to him too small a thing, is deceiving himself; it is not too little but too great for him, that he doeth it not.”
E. B. PUSEY
“The best perfection of a religious man is to do common things in a perfect manner. A constant fidelity in small things is a great and heroic virtue.”
ST. BUONAVENTURA
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