Young apprentices in the love of God gird themselves, choose mortifications as seems good to themselves and try to do their own will at the same time as that of God; but old masters of the craft let themselves be girded by others and go by ways which according to their own inclination they do not choose.
What should it matter to us whether it is by the deserts or by the meadows we go, if God is with us and we go into Paradise?
She is an all-pure soul who cannot love the Paradise of God, but only the God of Paradise.
The Spiritual Maxims of St. Francis de Sales
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Devotion to the souls in Purgatory contains in itself all the works of mercy, which supernaturalized by a spirit of faith, should merit us Heaven. de Sales
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You must remain calm and indifferent between desolation and consolation.
To leave off doing a good when God pleases, and to return from half way when God's will ordains it--- these are marks of a most perfect indifference.
We are to omit nothing which is requisite to bring the work which God has put into our hands to a happy issue, yet upon the condition that, if the event be contrary, we should lovingly embrace it.
To leave off doing a good when God pleases, and to return from half way when God's will ordains it--- these are marks of a most perfect indifference.
We are to omit nothing which is requisite to bring the work which God has put into our hands to a happy issue, yet upon the condition that, if the event be contrary, we should lovingly embrace it.
Devotion to the souls in Purgatory contains in itself all the works of mercy, which supernaturalized by a spirit of faith, should merit us Heaven. de Sales
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Most injuries are more happily met by the indifference which is shown for them than by any other means.
It is a greater virtue to eat without choice what is set before you, than always to choose the worst.
O God! How this word acceptance is great with love!
Never make a difficulty as to receiving what God sends you on the right or on the left.
It is a greater virtue to eat without choice what is set before you, than always to choose the worst.
O God! How this word acceptance is great with love!
Never make a difficulty as to receiving what God sends you on the right or on the left.
Devotion to the souls in Purgatory contains in itself all the works of mercy, which supernaturalized by a spirit of faith, should merit us Heaven. de Sales
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To the detached soul it is all one to her whether she serves God by meditating or serve Him by bearing with her neighbor--- both are the will of God, but the bearing with her neighbor is necessary at that time.
The holy indifferent soul which will nothing, but lets God will what pleases Him, should be said to have its will in a simple and general state of waiting.
What matters it to a truly loving soul whether God be served by this means or by another?
We have come to the end of this little book. I open it sometimes and just read where my finger lands and it always says something more to me each time; just like the Imitation of Christ. I will keep the thread at the top of the forum page in case you want to do the same.
The holy indifferent soul which will nothing, but lets God will what pleases Him, should be said to have its will in a simple and general state of waiting.
What matters it to a truly loving soul whether God be served by this means or by another?
We have come to the end of this little book. I open it sometimes and just read where my finger lands and it always says something more to me each time; just like the Imitation of Christ. I will keep the thread at the top of the forum page in case you want to do the same.
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Devotion to the souls in Purgatory contains in itself all the works of mercy, which supernaturalized by a spirit of faith, should merit us Heaven. de Sales