3 Virtues to Grow Closer to God

Can you guess what 3 virtues are needed to grow close to God?

In his book, “Introduction to the Devout Life”, St. Francis de Sales lists patience, humility, and meekness as the most essential virtues to live holy lives devoted to God.

What makes these so important?

Patience gives us the ability to endure trials and suffering, humility helps us see ourselves as we truly are in relation to the greatness of God, and meekness calms our tempers so that we may show God’s peace to others.

Cultivating these virtues is just the beginning.


Minute Meditation – God’s Patience

Humans do not have the patience or the humility of God. We want things done as fast as possible to achieve our immediate goals. Spiritual power, however, is the ability to influence events and others through our very being. Evolved people change others interiorly through who they are, and through their sharing of wisdom, rather than through mere external pressure. It is a slower process, but much more long-lasting.

— from the book Things Hidden: Scripture as Spirituality by Richard Rohr, OFM, page 93

//Franciscan Media//


Morning Offering – There is Still Time

“There is still time for endurance, time for patience, time for healing, time for change. Have you slipped? Rise up. Have you sinned? Cease. Do not stand among sinners, but leap aside.”
— St. Basil the Great