Bear with humble submission to the will of God every sorrow, every sickness and infirmity, every labor, every offense and disappointment, saying: “Thy Will be done,” knowing that God’s mercy orders everything for your good, and that the Lord can easily change every disappointment into happiness and joy.
— Saint John of Kronstadt (1829-1908)
If there be anything that is capable of setting the soul in a large place it is absolute abandonment to God. It diffuses in the soul a peace that flows like a river and the righteousness which is as the waves of the sea.
–François Fénèlon (1651-1715)
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,
–Flannery O’Connor (1925-1964)
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)
You propose to give up everything to God; be sure, then, to include yourself among the things to be given up.
–Saint Benedict (480-547)
