Ointment for our wounds

"True humility, however deep it may be, neither disquiets, nor troubles, nor disturbs the soul;  it is accompanied by peace, joy, and tranquility...It enlarges it and makes it fit to serve God better."  On the other hand, false humility only disturbs and upsets the mind and troubles the soul..."

"Distress and lack of confidence lessen our capacity for loving and the devil's aim is to hold back souls on the road to love.

"To be wanting in confidence in God's mercy, even after a grave fall, is never a sign of true humility but of insidious pride and diabolical temptation. ..Humility is the virtue that keeps us in our place; and our place in God's sight is that of children who are weak and miserable, yes, but confident children.

"When we fall into the same imperfections after so many good resolutions;  when after many efforts we still do not succeed in correcting certain faults or in overcoming certain difficulties, and we find ourselves in one way or another far beneath what we ought or would like to be, let us have recourse to the infallible remedy of humility.  "Humility" says St Teresa of Jesus is "the ointment for our wounds" (Int Cas III,2).  Even if we seem to have used up all our strength, if we feel unable to do anything and see ourselves always prostrate, powerless to rise, there is still one possibility for us: to humble ourselves.  Let us humble ourselves sincerely and with confidence; and humility will supply for all our miseries;  it will heal all our wounds because it will attract divine mercy to them."  --Divine Intimacy, p. 322.