“Charity enters heaven when humility opens the door.”
Question for Meditation: How does humility open the door for love?
“Charity enters heaven when humility opens the door.”
Question for Meditation: How does humility open the door for love?
“Never have I been so highly honored. Never have I been made to feel more humble and unworthy.”
Question for Meditation: What is the relationship between honor and humility?
“Let your eyes be turned earthwards and your heart heavenwards.”
Question for Meditation: How do you direct your mind and heart?
“Be a true representative of the goodness in your heart, and don’t expect it to be easy or even noticed.”
Question for Meditation: How and why do you represent your goodness?
“Behold, this is the true and the Christian humility. In this you will be able to achieve victory over every vice, by attributing to God rather than to yourself the fact that you have won.”
Question for Meditation: What does God empower you to do?
“God’s love for the biggest sinner is greater than the love of the holiest man for God.”
Question for Meditation: How do you receive a love larger than yours?
“Successful indeed are the believers: those who humble themselves in prayer…”
Question for Meditation: What kind of crowns do you wear?
“Where I come from, the words most highly valued are those spoken from the heart, unpremeditated and unrehearsed.”
Question for Meditation: Say something today from the heart, without worry of perception.
“To pray and say ‘Thy Kingdom come,’ we must also be able to say ‘my kingdoms go.’”
Question for Meditation: What are you letting go of to welcome the Kingdom of God?
“Have among yourselves the same attitude that is also yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God something to be grasped. Rather, he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, coming in human likeness; and found human in appearance, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, even death on a cross.”
Question for Meditation: How can you truly humble yourself?