Acceptance, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic
If we patiently accept through love all that God allows to happen, then we will begin to taste even here on earth something of the delights the saints experience in heaven. But for this we must serve God willingly and lovingly, seeking to obey the Divine Will rather than to follow our own inclinations and desires. For the perfection of love demands that we desire for ourselves only whatever God wills. Let us implore the good God unceasingly to grant us this grace!
–Saint Jane Frances de Chantal (1572-1641)
Abandonment (of self), Acceptance, Grace, Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897)
No doubt, it is a grace to receive the sacraments. When God does not permit it, it is good too! Everything is grace! When I shall have arrived at port, I will teach you how to travel…on the stormy sea of the world: with surrender and the love of a child who knows his Father loves him and cannot leave him alone in the hour of danger…The way of simple love and confidence is really made for you.
–Saint Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897)
Acceptance, Adversity, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic
Now there is no one who approaches God with a true and upright heart who is not tested by hardships and temptations. So in all these temptations see to it that even if you feel them, you do not consent to them, but bear them patiently and calmly with humility and long suffering.
–Saint Albert the Great (c. 1206-1280)
Acceptance, Adversity, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic
Whoever accepts the Lord’s chastisements as gifts find his soul’s salvation in them and a more glorious crown awaiting him in heaven.
–Thomas à Kempis (1380-1471)
Acceptance, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic
Unquestioning acceptance of tradition is helpful for a gentle person, for then he will not try God’s patience or often fall into sin.
–Saint Mark the Ascetic (Fifth Century)
Acceptance, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic, Suffering
Let’s bless our Lord whether we are in prosperity or in suffering, for these blend together in life–joy will follow our suffering, and those sufferings, in turn, will be followed by joy.
–Blessed Luisitia Josefa (1866-1937)
