March 24

“His friends sometimes remonstrated at the way in which he allowed people to consume his precious time about comparative trifles: ‘But they are important to those whom they concern,’ he would reply, ‘ and the persons in question want help as much as others. Such work is quite sufficient for me. I care not how I am employed so long as I am at work for God’s service.”

From Life of S. Francis de Sales

“Very slight deeds and words may have a sacramental efficacy, if we can cast our self-love behind us in order to do and say them.”

GEORGE ELIOT [pen-name of Mary Ann Evans]

“Nothing is too little to be ordered by our Father; nothing too little in which to see His Hand; nothing which touches our souls, too little to accept from Him; nothing too little to be done to Him.”

E. B. PUSEY