Nature seeks to have things that are curious and fine, and does not care for things that are cheap and coarse: but grace is pleased with that which is plain and humble, rejects not coarse things, nor refuses to be clad in old clothes.
-Bk. III, ch. liv.
Then shall the mean habit shine, and fine clothing appear contemptible.
-Bk. I, ch. xxiv.
She had been given a new habit (the one preserved as a relic), and had worn it for the first time at Christmas 1896. It was the second she had had since her Clothing, and it fitted her very badly. I asked if this caused her any annoyance: "Not in the least! No more than if it belonged to a Chinaman thousands of miles away."
-N.V.
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For a List of Abbreviations, see this post.
Adapted from Just For Today(©1943 Burns & Oates)
Nihil Obstat: Reginaldus Phillips, S.T.L.,Censor deputatus
Imprimatur: Edwardus Myers, Vic. Cap.
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