The quotes posted this week to social media (Facebook, Instagram, X) are a bit scattered in theme, but one thing that I think comes out is how, in or through or with the humility and littleness/nothingness that is associated with Christian contemplation, somehow good is done to those around in the contemplative.

[God] didn’t attach salvation to knowledge or intelligence or wealth, nor to long experience or rare gifts that are not given to all. He attached it to something within the reach of everyone, absolutely everyone. Jesus attaches salvation to humility, to the act of making yourself little. That is all it takes to win heaven. — Saint Charles de Foucauld

The whole spirit of the Gospel is an invitation to descend, to lower ourselves, to be humble: to be ourselves. — Arturo Paoli

Contemplation… is frequently the treasure of persons hidden in the world… souls who live by it in all simplicity, without visions, without miracles, but with such a flame of love for God and neighbour that good happens all around them without noise and without agitation. — Jacques Maritain

They [those in a state of deep union and contemplation] keep before their minds the benefit of their neighbour, nothing else. So as to please God more, they forget themselves for their neighbour’s sake, and they lose their lives in the challenge… They are not aware of the words they say while enveloped in so sublime a love of God; and if they are aware, they don’t care if they displease men. These souls do much good. — Saint Teresa of Avila

He who does the little he can, does much before God. It is not difficult to persevere in prayer when we find consolation in it, but there is great merit in doing so when sensible devotion is reduced to a minimum. Yet it is precisely then that prayer becomes more meritorious and humility is increased, as well as patience and perseverance. — Saint Peter of Alcantara