Know where you are going…
Setting out is one thing: you also must know where you are going and what you can do when you get there.
–Saint Madeline Sophie Barat (1779-1865)
Apart from Jesus Christ…
Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.
–Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
Difficult to be proud…
Anyone who thinks of what he is, what he has been, and what he can do of himself will find it difficult to be proud.
–Saint Claude de la Colombiere (1641-1682)
Prayer is the only…
I feel a great attraction toward prayer… It is the only means of purifying us, of uniting us to God, and of allowing God to unite himself to us and be glorified in us. We must pray to obtain the apostolic virtues; pray that we may use them to help others, and pray also that we may not lose them while serving others.
–Saint Claude de la Colombiere (1641-1682)
Unless God wills it…
It is one of the most firmly established and most consoling of the truths that have been revealed to us that (apart from sin) nothing happens to us in life unless God wills it so. Wealth and poverty alike come from Him. If we fall ill, God is the cause of our illness; if we get well, our recovery is due to God. We owe our lives entirely to Him, and when death comes to put an end to life, His will be the hand that deals the blow.
–Saint Claude de la Colombiere (1641-1682)
Persevering until death…
Above all, as sanctity does not consist in being faithful for a day or a year but in persevering until death, we must use God as a shield which covers us completely because we are attacked from all sides. God must do everything. All the better; there will be no fear of failure. As for ourselves, we have only to acknowledge our powerlessness and to be fervent and constant in asking for help through the intercession of Mary, to whom God refuses nothing.
–Saint Claude de la Colombiere (1641-1682)
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