I think of Thérèse of Lisieux, for example, the French Carmelite nun who, wishing to be holy, but recognizing that her cloistered life, in a convent, precluded works of great scope, or influence, discovered what she called the ‘little way,’ which, to her mind, meant finding within the realm of small gestures, personal interactions, and private or unwitnessed existence, the endlessness of occasion through which virtue, rather than sin, can be manifested.