Do you wish to enjoy the peace of a quiet conscience, and also of certain spiritual consolations which are a great help in aiding you to do willingly all that is necessary to lead a devout life and to be ever more fervent in the Service of God? I cannot give you better advice than this: Give yourself to humility, and God will fill your soul with ineffable consolation. “And my spirit hath rejoiced,” says the Blessed Virgin in her canticle; and she adds, for your instruction, that this exultation was sent to her by God because of her humility: “Because He hath regarded the humility of His handmaid.”

If you have a sincere wish to save your soul, you must take those means which God has ordained for you, and the principal and most essential one is humility, as is shown in holy Scripture: “For Thou wilt save the humble people.” “And He will save the humble of spirit”. “Glory shall uphold the humble of spirit.” And how do you esteem this humility? How do you practice it? How fervently do you ask God for it? Do you hold it to be of precept, or only of counsel which you are at liberty to choose or reject at will? The entrance to paradise is not only narrow but low, therefore Jesus Christ said: “Unless you become as little children you cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven.” And into this kingdom he alone can enter who “shall humble himself.” –’Humility of Heart’ by Capuchin Gaetano (Cajetan) Maria da Bergamo