Wednesday, March 12, 2008

More than the whole world

One evil thought repelled, one angry humor smartly chastised, one base envy well warred down, one thorough Deo Gratias in a piece of ill-luck, may be really hundreds of leagues of progress, and each of them worth more than the whole world to us, as something which pleases God, and which God alone has enabled us to do.

-- Father Faber