Purity.
Purity is the treasure of the humble of heart.
~ Meditations (MD 519)
Humility
Humility is nothing but God preferred to ourselves.
~ Meditations (MD 542)
Just as a musician must practice many years before playing in public, so those who wish to be humble and chaste when occasion requires, must train themselves in humility and mortification.
~ Meditations (MD 454)
Praise
Do we praise God in everything? All that He does is for our good, for our perfection, and often to prepare us for his special designs. Resolve to have the courage to leave him entire freedom and to say, whatever sends or permits “God be praised.”
Meditations (MD 151).
Simplicity
1. Simplicity is born of truth, and truth is love, the mainspring of sacrifice… May we possess a saving temperance, a discreet counsel by means of which we can imitate the simplicity of little ones and the courage of warriors.
Meditations (MD 76).
2. Understand the force of simplicity; souls that are upright and open before God and before men are all powerful. Let us examine ourselves and renounce all ways of acting contrary to Franciscan simplicity.
3. The great obstacle to simplicity is self-love; the great means of acquiring it, humility and the practice of penance.
4. Souls that are simple and upright do not stop in the way traced by their faith, hope and love.
Holiness:
Faith, hope and charity are the basis and essence of all holiness. Faith will help us to become supernatural; hope will lead us to practice mortification; charity will unite us with God and make it possible for us to win other souls to love Him.
~ Meditations (MD 202)
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