All my confidence…

Grace, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)

It is in Him alone that I have placed all my confidence. Be brave always, prudent and confident in the omnipresence of God. He will give you the strength and grace that you need. We must suffer, we must humble ourselves, we must pray, we must hope and have perfect confidence in God. If God wants it, He will do it all. It is in Him that I have placed all my confidence and I have always experienced the effect of His help.
–Saint Joan Antide-Thouret (1765-1826)

Our free will…

Francis de Sales (1567-1622), Grace, Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)

Our free will can stop or obstruct the course of God’s inspiration. When the favorable wind of God’s grace fills the sails of our soul, it is within our power to refuse consent, thereby impeding the effect of that favoring wind. But when our spirit sails along and makes a prosperous voyage, it is not we who cause the wind of inspiration to come to us. We neither fill our sails with it, nor do we give movement to the ship that is our heart: we consent to its movement. It is God’s inspiration, then, which impresses on our free will the gentle, blessed influence whereby it not only causes the will to see the beauty of the good, but also warms it, helps it, reinforces it and moves it so gently that by its agency, the will turns and glides freely toward the good.
–Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622)

Abandoned themselves…

Abandonment (of self), Grace, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic

And because they have abandoned themselves to God in doing, in leaving undone, and in suffering, they have steadfast peace and inward joy, consolation and savor, of which the world cannot partake; neither any dissembler, nor the man who seeks and means himself more than the glory of God.
–Blessed John Ruysbroeck (1293-1381)