Do all you can to be resigned to the Will of God in all the sufferings that God permits, in your tiredness and in all the work you have to do. Keep your heart at peace and be recollected; don’t get upset. If you can go to church, go; if you can’t, stay quietly and contentedly at home; just do the Will of God in the work you have at hand.
–Saint Paul of the Cross (1694-1775)
Under the influence of the Gift of Wisdom, what is bitter becomes sweet, and weariness becomes repose.
–Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)
To worship God in spirit and truth means to worship God as we ought to worship Him. God is Spirit, so we must worship Him in spirit and truth, that is, by a humble and true adoration of spirit in the depth and center of our souls. God alone can see this worship; we can repeat it so often that in the end it becomes as if it were natural to us, and as if God were one with our souls, and our souls one with Him.
–Brother Lawrence (1614-1691)
The more anyone estranges himself from himself, and passes out of himself into God, the more completely he is established in the very truth.
–Blessed Henry Suso (c. 1295–1366)
To do the will of God, man must despise his own; the more he dies to himself, the more he will live to God.
–Saint Peter Claver (1581-1654)
A person may be faithful; he may have the power to utter hidden mysteries; he may be discriminating in the evaluation of what is said and pure in his actions. But the greater he seems to be, the more humbly he ought to act, and the more zealous he should be for the common good rather than his own interest.
–Saint Clement (First Century)
