Charles Williams : The New Christian Year

21st Tuesday after Trinity

If thou hast not the prayer of the spirit, strive for the prayer of the body, and then shall be added unto thee the prayer in the spirit.  If thou hast not humility in the spirit, strive for the humility which is in the body, and then shall be added unto thee the humility which is in the spirit.

The Paradise of the Fathers.

Be not humble in thy words only, but also in thy deeds.

The Paradise of the Fathers.

21st Monday after Trinity

We would fain be humble; but not despised.  To be despised and rejected is the heritage of virtue.  We would be poor too, but without privation.  And doubtless we are patient, except with hardships and with disagreeables.  And so with all the virtues.

Eckhart: Sermons and Collations.

Humility is deep enough when God has mortified a man with the man himself, then and not till then is a man satisfied, and the claims of virtue.

Eckhart: In Colllationibus.

Twentieth Sunday after Trinity

Meekness in itself is nought else but a true knowing and feeling of a man's self as he is.  For surely, whoso might verily see and feel himself as he is, he should verily be meeked.  Two things there be that be causes of this meekness, the which be these: One is the filth, the wretchedness, and the fraility of man, into the which he must always feel in some degree the whiles he liveth in this life, be he never so holy.  Another is the over-abundant love and the worthiness of God in himself; in beholding of which all nature quaketh, all clerks be fools, and all saints and angels be blind.  Insomuch, that were it not, through the wisdom of his Godhead, that he measured their beholding according to their ableness in nature and in grace, I cannot say what should befall them.

The Cloud of Unknowing.

The Feast of St. Simon

The Body cannot feel gladness at the trouble of consent in the grief and in labouring for the remedy.  In a company of two is the Church; but the Church is Christ.

Tertullian: On Penitence.

The Feast of St. Jude

In the Christian Church He hath given us means to be better to-day than yesterday, and to-morrow than to-day.  That grace which God offers us in the Church does not only fill that capacity which we have; but gives us a greater capacity than we had: and it is an abuse of God's grace not to improve it, or not to procure such further grace as that present grace makes us capable of.

John Donne: Sermons.

20th Saturday after Trinity

He made all things in fulness of goodness, and therefore the blessed Trinity is ever full pleased in all his works.

   And, all this showed he full blissfully, meaning thus: "See! I am God: see! I am in all things: see! I do all things: see! I lift never mine hands off my works, not ever shall, without end: see! I lead all thing to the end I ordained it to from without beginning, by the same Might, Wisdom, and Love whereby I made it.  How should anything be amiss?

Juliana of Norwich: Revelations of Divine Love.

Jesus Christ is a God whom we approach without pride, and before whom we humble ourselves without despair.

Pascal: Pensées.

20th Friday after Trinity

Now this is the ground and original of the Spirit of Love in the creature, it is and must be a will to all goodness; and you have not the Spirit of Love till you have this will to all goodness at all times and on all occasions.  You may indeed do many works of love and delight in them, especially at such times as they are not inconvenient to you or contradictory to your state or temper or occurrences in life.  But the Spirit of Love is not in you till it is the spirit of your life, till you live freely, willingly, and universally according to it.

William Law: The Spirit of Love.