Expect heaven for nothing?
Can you expect to go to Heaven for nothing? Did not our dear Savior track the whole way to it with His Blood and tears?
–Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton (1774-1821)
An ineffable joy…
You wish absolutely to form Jesus Christ in you, in your heart, in your works, by a sincere love of his doctrine and a perfect imitation of his life; rest assured it will cost you many pangs; but they will pass away, and the presence of Jesus, who shall live in you, will fill your soul with an ineffable joy which can never be taken from you.
–Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
Suffering and humility…
Together with the grace of suffering, spiritual tempests bring the grace of humility, a new, deep humility that hollows out in the soul a void so immense that God fits into it.
–Luis M. Martinez (1881-1956)
Suffer patiently…
We need to suffer patiently not only the burden of being ill, but of being ill with the particular illness that God wants for us, among the people that He wants us to be with, and with the discomforts that He permits us to experience. I say the same of all other tribulations.
–Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
Love of God consists…
Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.
–Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591)
Deny oneself for Christ…
This path to God does not consist in having a multitude of meditations or particular practices, nor in having ecstasies… but rather in the one thing necessary… earnestly to deny oneself interiorly as well as exteriorly, and for Christ’s sake to be ready to suffer and die to self in every respect.
–Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591)
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