In suffering, love…
In suffering, love, and in loving, suffer!
–Blessed Maria Lopez of Jesus (1560-1640)
Your cross a gift…
The everlasting God has in His wisdom foreseen from eternity the cross that He now presents to you as a gift from His inmost heart. He has blessed it with His holy name, anointed it with His grace, perfumed it with His consolation, taken one last glance at you and your courage and then sent it to you from heaven, a special greeting from God to you, an alms of the all-merciful love of God.
–Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
It is God’s way…
God is more anxious to bestow His blessings on us than we are to receive them. For it is not God’s way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings.
— Saint Augustine (354-430)
Suffering is a…
Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)
If you suffer…
If you suffer with Him, you will reign with Him. If you cry with Him, you will have joy with Him.If you die with Him on the cross of tribulation, you will possess the eternal dwelling place in the splendor of the saints. And your name, written in the book of life, will be glorious among men.
–Saint Clare of Assisi (1194-1253)
Suffering patiently endured…
If there be a true way that leads to the Everlasting Kingdom, it is most certainly that of suffering, patiently endured.
–Saint Colette of Corbie (1381-1447)
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