All God wants is our heart. And He is more pleased when we value our uselessness and weakness out of love and reverence for His holy will, than when we do violence to ourselves and perform great works of penance.
–Saint Jane Frances de Chantal (1572-1641)
In our communion with our Lord we should find all our delight, caring not whether it is his good pleasure to give us consolation or desolation. This absolute dependence on and conformity to the will of God is the sum and root of perfection… perfect denudation of self… We are all called to this perfection, and to attain to it there is no need to weaken the body in austerities.
–Saint Jane Frances de Chantal (1572-1641)
Do not be afraid. Death is only God who is passing by.
— Saint Jeanne-Marie Kerguin (1864-1900)
The love for material things grows like a fungus in the soul and destroys the loveliness of the human heart utterly.
— Caryll Houselander (1901-1954)
Suffering borne in the will quietly and patiently is a continual, very powerful prayer before God.
–Saint Jane Frances de Chantal (1572-1641)
