Don’t fear temptations…
Don’t be afraid of temptations. God permits them to refine your humility and to lay deep foundations for the lofty spiritual edifice that He has planned to build in your soul.
–Saint Paul of the Cross (1694-1775)
Love holy modesty…
God permits that kind of temptation in order to impress you with a deeper sense of your own nothingness, and to convince you that, deprived of His grace, you would be capable of committing the most heinous crimes. Therefore act prudently, avoid all dangerous intercourse, watch over your eyes, your heart, and all your affections; be very modest, be circumspect in all your actions, by night as well as by day; love holy modesty.
— Saint Paul of the Cross (1694-1775)
Nothing but self-will…
Nothing but self-will can separate us from God.
–Saint Alphonsus Liguori (1696-1787)
God wills your sanctification…
God wills only our good; God loves us more than anybody else can or does love us. His will is that no one should lose his soul, that everyone should save and sanctify his soul… “This is the will of God, your sanctification.” God has made the attainment of our happiness, his glory. Even chastisements come to us, not to crush us, but to make us mend our ways and save our souls.
— Saint Alphonsus Liguori (1696-1787)
God’s will alone…
If we would completely rejoice the heart of God, let us strive in all things to conform ourselves to His divine will. Let us not only strive to conform ourselves, but also to unite ourselves to whatever dispositions God makes of us. Conformity signifies that we join our wills to the will of God. Uniformity means more. Uniformity means that we make one will of God’s will and our will. In this way we will only what God wills. God’s will alone is our will.
–Saint Alphonsus Liguori (1696-1787)
Learn from the saints…
During our sojourn in this world, we should learn from the saints now in heaven, how to love God. The pure and perfect love of God they enjoy there, consists in uniting themselves perfectly to his will. It would be the greatest delight of the seraphs to pile up sand on the seashore or to pull weeds in a garden for all eternity, if they found out such was God’s will. Our Lord himself teaches us to ask to do the will of God on earth as the saints do it in heaven: “Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”
— Saint Alphonsus Liguori (1696-1787)
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