Self-denial makes you…
Humility makes you strong; self-denial makes you Christlike.
–Saint Columban (543-615)
A soul abandoned….
A soul abandoned completely to Divine Providence desires only God and is detached from all but him: there is no eventuality that can unsettle her. Nothing so strips the soul and gives it greater dependence on God than the practice of the maxim of our blessed Father Francis de Sales: Ask for nothing and refuse nothing.
–Saint Jane Frances de Chantal (1572-1641)
It is attachment…
It is attachment to creatures and to self-satisfaction that weakens the blessings of love in your heart. You must die to all that, if you wish the pure love of God to reign therein.
–Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647-1690)
Detaching your heart…
You see plainly that I do not mean to advise you to perform great austerities, but rather generously to mortify your passions and inclinations, detaching your heart and emptying it of all that is earthly, and exercising charity towards your neighbor and liberality towards the poor.
–Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647-1690)
Do not be discouraged…
Do not be discouraged if physical sickness comes upon you. Who are you to take offense if your Lord and Master wishes you to be afflicted in your body? Does he not care for you in every way? Could you live without him? Resign yourself and beseech God to grant you what is appropriate, that is, according to his will; remain patiently.
–The Desert Fathers (and Mothers)
Always receive with…
Always receive with equal contentment from God’s hand either consolations or sufferings, peace or distress, health or illness. Ask nothing, refuse nothing, but always be ready to do and to suffer anything that comes from His Providence.
–Saint Teresa Margaret (1747-1770)
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