Luke Newcomb

“It is especially in the time of temptation that humility is necessary. Every time the devil tempts you to commit some grave sin, he tempts you to revolt against God, and to despise and offend Him.”
― Mary da Bergamo, Humility Of Heart: Linked to the Bible and Illustrated

“Do you wish to know why our houses are no longer peopled with saints as they were in the heroic ages? We watch, we chant, we fast, we work pretty much as our Fathers did; but we are not to the same extent as they were men of prayer;”
― Vitalis Lehodey, The Ways of Mental Prayer

“for heaven’s sake, don’t turn reading into the intellectual equivalent of eating organic greens, or (shifting the metaphor slightly) some fearfully disciplined appointment with an elliptical trainer of the mind in which you count words or pages the way some people fix their attention on the “calories burned” readout”
― Alan Jacobs, The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction

“at the tribunal of God there will be no excuse for us for not having possessed humility, because we have been taught that we could obtain it by persevering prayer, and, if we have not used this means to obtain it, it will be our fault that we have not asked God for it, and therefore our fault that we have not obtained it. Our Saviour in His Gospel says: "Ask and you shall receive." (John xvi, 24)”
― Mary da Bergamo, Humility Of Heart: Linked to the Bible and Illustrated