From social media (Facebook, Instagram, and X) this past week:

Make an effort to profit from your great weakness and, by it, to become holy. Throw yourself upon Jesus in confidence, like a little child unable to take a single step on her own. Be like the fragile branch which, one day, will bear flowers. — Marcel Văn

Sanctity is made for those who are little: that is, for those who accept to be carried in the arms of God. They discover in the love that God shows them who they are: sons and daughters of God. — Cardinal Jean-Marie (Aron) Lustiger

Spiritual childhood is the fundamental attitude of a disciple; it is the result of mature faith; it means self-surrender to the will of God; it is the joyful confidence of a small child. This childlike spirit disturbs human logic and stands in opposition to temptations of pride and domination that are at the root of evil and oppression in our world. — Little Sister Magdeleine of Jesus

Friends of mine have so often criticized me for having refused to get involved with certain Eastern theories and prayer techniques. I’m allergic to all this. You’re taught to concentrate on your “self,” you’re taught prayer as an end in itself. The ideal is to form the “praying human being.” No, look in the gospel: the emphasis there is on the formation of the saving human being, the altruist—the formation of men and women who take up the great human problem, which is the problem of nonacceptance. This will certainly lead them to suffer and to pray, and to a great deal of joy, because friendship is joy. — Arturo Paoli