And to one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one, to each according to his particular ability, and then he went on his journey.
Matt 25:14-23
God is content if we do all we can to love Him in our sphere of life, and He asks for nothing more. You sometimes regret that you cannot practice great austerities, which no doubt are due to Him for our past sins. Supply for these in another way, replace those fastings and watchings by fervent acts of love, He requires nothing more.
Paul Segneri
If you are always ready to do His will and to submit to it, then be sure that you love Him. Conformity to the will of God also makes a man happy as God, who is happiness itself.
Le Pere Nepveu
They reverenced even the scourges which God had sent to chasten them. The early Christians blessed the hands that struck them.
Massillon
According to St Augustine, the Divine Word falls on a weak and sensitive element, and it becomes a sacrament. This word also falls on impure hearts, and it makes them chaste, on the wicked, and makes them saints. It finds them in sin, and it converts them to God.
La Pere Antoine de la Porte
However enlightened and clever we may be, we must not, on account of that, neglect the assistance of holy instructions, however bright may be our intellect, we can easily go astray, however learned and scientific, we can always learn something from hearing the Word of God.
Massillion
Nothing can excuse the neglect of the duties of the position in life which God has conferred upon us. No amount of external work, not the unsleeping universal heroism of a St Vincent de Paul, can make up for the want of attention to our own souls.
Fr Faber
