40 And what members of the holy body, which is the Church, ought more to take care, that upon them the holy Spirit may rest, than such as profess virginal holiness? But how does He rest, where He finds not His own place? What else than an humbled heart, to fill, not to leap back from; to raise up, not to weigh down? Whereas it has been most plainly said, “On whom shall rest My Spirit? On him that is humble and quiet, and trembles at My words.” Already you live righteously, already you live piously, you live chastely, holily, with virginal purity; as yet, however, you live here, and are you not humbled at hearing, “What, is not human life upon earth a trial?” Does it not drive you back from over-confident arrogance, “Woe unto the world because of offenses?” Do you not tremble, lest you be accounted among the many, whose “love waxes cold, because that iniquity abounds?” Do you not smite your breast, when you hear?“Wherefore, whoso thinks that he stands, let him see to it lest he fall?” Amid these divine warnings and human dangers, do we yet find it so hard to persuade holy virgins to humility?
Source: On Holy Virginity (New Advent)