Clearly, what God wants above all is our will which we received as a free gift from God in creation and possess as though our own. When a man trains himself to acts of virtue, it is with the help of grace from God from whom all good things come that he does this. The will is what man has as his unique possession.
— Saint Joseph of Cupertino (1603-1663)
Sometimes when our Lord asks us to do some good work, all He really wants is our willingness to do the work, and not its accomplishment.
— Saint Jane Frances de Chantal (1572-1641)
We must serve our Lord according to his liking and not according to our own.
— Saint Jane Frances de Chantal (1572-1641)
Weakness is not the kind of weakness which we show by sinning and forgetting God, but the kind of weakness which means being completely supple, completely transparent, completely abandoned in the hands of God… You could think of that [weakness] also in terms of a sail. A sail can catch the wind and be used to maneuver a boat only because it is so frail. If instead of a sail you put a solid board, it would not work; it is the weakness of the sail that makes it sensitive to the wind.
— Anthony Bloom (1914-2003)
We must be faithful to the present moment or we will frustrate the plan of God for our lives.
— Blessed Solanus Casey (1870-1957)
The present moment always reveals the presence and the power of God.
–Jean-Pierre de Caussade (1675-1751)
