Let Christ crucified…
Let Christ crucified be enough for you, and with him suffer and take your rest, and hence annihilate yourself in all inward and outward things.
–Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591)
Give heart and mind to God…
To give heart and mind to God, so that they are ours no longer — to do good without being conscious of it, to pray ceaselessly and without effort as we breathe — to love without stopping to reflect upon our feelings — such is the perfect forgetfulness of self, which casts us upon God, as a babe rests upon its mother’s breast.
— Jean Nicolas Grou (1731-1803)
Every soul surrendered…
The soul that has acquired humility is always mindful of God, and thinks to herself: ‘God has created me. He suffered for me. He forgives me my sins and comforts me. He feeds me and cares for me. Why then should I take thought for myself, and what is there to fear, even if death threaten me?’ The Lord enlightens every soul that has surrendered to the will of God, for He said: “Call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.”
–Saint Silouan the Athonite (1866-1938)
Commit everything…
Certainly if we are to come directly, safely and nakedly to our Lord God without hindrance, freely and peacefully, as explained above, and be securely joined to him with even mind in prosperity or adversity, whether in life or in death, then our job is to commit everything unhesitatingly and resolutely, in general and individually, to his unquestionable and infallible providence.
–Saint Albert the Great (c. 1206-1280)
Do God’s will, not our own…
Our obligation is to do God’s will, and not our own. We must remember this if the prayer that our Lord commanded us to say daily is to have any meaning on our lips. How unreasonable it is to pray that God’s will be done, and then not promptly obey it when he calls us from this world!
–Saint Cyprian of Carthage (c. 200-258)
We should submit to God’s will…
It is not God’s will that we should abound in spiritual delights, but that in all things we should submit to his holy will.
–Blessed Henry Suso (c. 1295-1366)
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