We should ever be grateful for and love the vocation to which God has called us. This applies to every vocation because, after all, what a privilege it is to serve God, even in the least capacity!
–Blessed Solanus Casey (1870-1957)
… live authentically and wholeheartedly as God’s, handing
over our own plans and desires and picking up His plans and desires.
–Brother Lawrence (1614-1691)
How can you find out if you are living within the will of God? Here is the sign: If you are troubled about any thing, this means that you have not completely given yourself over to the will of God. A person who lives in the will of God is not concerned over anything. And if he needs anything, he gives both it and himself over to God. And if he does not receive the necessary thing, he remains calm nevertheless, as if he had it. The soul which has been given over to the will of God is afraid of nothing, not of thunder nor of thieves – nothing. But whatever happens, she says, “Thus it pleases God.”
–Saint Silouan the Athonite (1866-1938)
Do not refuse anything you possess, even though you may need it.
–Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591)
We must give ourselves to God altogether. God makes all his own the soul that is wholly given to him.
–Saint Philip Neri (1515-1595)
Therefore, you must make a sound and firm resolution to submit yourselves totally to His will and, with a lively and steadfast faith, to receive from Him what you have to do for love of Him. And in this (whatever may happen) to persevere with constancy to the very end.
–Saint Angela Merici (1474-1540)
