In good hands…
When the soul lies resignedly in the hands of God, and is contented with the divine pleasure, it is in good hands, and has the best security that good will happen to it.
— Saint Philip Neri (1515-1595)
Resting in God…
There is a state of resting in God, an absolute break from all intellectual activity, when one forms no plans, makes no decisions and for the first time really ceases to act, when one simply hands over the future to God’s will and ‘surrenders himself to fate.’
— Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (1891-1942)
By giving yourself…
By giving yourself to God, you not only receive Himself in exchange, but eternal life as well.
— Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
Gradually becomes transformed…
As one sees a river pass into the ocean, lose itself in it, its water for a time distinguished from that of the sea, till it gradually becomes transformed into the same sea, and possesses all its qualities; so was my soul lost in God, who communicated to it His qualities, having drawn it out of all that it had of its own. Its life is an inconceivable innocence, not known or comprehended of those who are still shut up in themselves or only live for themselves.
–Jeanne Guyon (1648-1717)
Perfect love of God…
Perfect love of God means the complete union of our will with God’s.
— Saint Alphonsus Liguori (1696-1787)
In offering ourselves…
If we look carefully within ourselves, we shall find that there are certain limits beyond which we refuse to go in offering ourselves to [God]. We hover around these reservations, making believe not to see them, for fear of self-reproach… The more we shrink from giving up any such reserved point, the more certain it is that it needs to be given up. If we were not fast bound by it, we should not make so many efforts to persuade ourselves that we are free.
— François Fénelon (1651-1715)
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