Die to yourself…
Are you ready to die to yourself, to live with Christ to the end of your life to rise with Him and enjoy Him eternally?
–Saint Joan Antide-Thouret (1765-1826)
Will of God…
What was the first rule of our dear Savior’s life? You know if was to do his Father’s will. Well, then, the first purpose of our daily work is to do the will of God; secondly, to do it in the manner he wills; and thirdly, to do it because it is his will.
–Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton (1774-1821)
Do God’s holy will…
I will attempt day by day to break my will into pieces. I want to do God’s Holy Will, not my own!
–Saint Gabriel of the Sorrowful Mother (1838-1862)
Feel his presence…
If we can, by God’s grace, turn ourselves entirely to Him, and put aside everything else in order to speak with Him and worship Him, this does not mean that we can always imagine Him or feel His presence.
–Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
Forsake ourselves and…
In our approach to God, we must carry with us ourselves and all our works, as a perpetual sacrifice to God; and in the Presence of God, we must forsake ourselves and all our works, and, dying in love, go forth from all creatureliness into the superessential richness of God: there we shall possess God in an eternal death to ourselves.
–Blessed John Ruysbroeck (1293-1381)
Abandoned themselves…
And because they have abandoned themselves to God in doing, in leaving undone, and in suffering, they have steadfast peace and inward joy, consolation and savor, of which the world cannot partake; neither any dissembler, nor the man who seeks and means himself more than the glory of God.
–Blessed John Ruysbroeck (1293-1381)
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