On social media (Facebook, Instagram, and X) this past week, the quotes moved through consideration of the confidence we have in God, onto the places where that confidence is lived—first among the Communion of Saints, also for most of us, in Nazareth:

Confidence is the form that grace takes in the poor one who tends towards God. — Raïssa Maritain

We must have absolute confidence—but while in that disposition, we must be very careful to keep our confidence directed strictly and purely towards God alone; otherwise, we would necessarily end up buffeted and rapped. — Jacques Maritain

It is good for us to think about our having our citizenship in Heaven [cf. Phil 3:20] and the saints of Heaven as our fellow citizens and housemates. — Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein)

The imitation of our Lord in Nazareth… involves the conviction that the evangelical holiness proper to a child of God is possible in the ordinary circumstances of a man who is poor and obliged to work for his living. — René Voillaume

I did not feel that I was called to imitate Jesus in his public life and preaching, but rather understood that I should imitate the hidden life of the humble and poor workman of Nazareth. — Saint Charles de Foucauld

The Lord does not look for the centre-stage, but for the simple heart of those who desire him and love him without ostentation, without wanting to tower above others. — Pope Francis