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Title: "Thy Will Be Done" Post by: Brigid on June 14, 2011, 03:24:22 PM In his book of the above title, St. Francis de Sales wrote this to a woman who was 'striving too hard for perfection'.
... Without a doubt, we must resolve again and again to unite ourselves to God in order that we may keep such resolutions. But in your fervors, I do not want you to desire temptations or occasion for mortification. Since, by the grace of God they will not be lacking to you, there is no need to occupy your heart in desiring them. Instead you should occupy your heart in preparing and readying itself to receive them - not when you wish, but when God wishes to give them to you. (my own bolding) Title: Re: "Thy Will Be Done" Post by: Brigid on June 14, 2011, 03:33:40 PM We must join these two thing together: an extreme affection for practicing our exercises very exactly - whether these concern prayer or virtues - and a calmness, quietness, and lack of dismay if we happen to commit a fault in them. For the practice of our exercises depends on our fidelity, which ought always to be entire, and grow from hour to hour; but faults come from our infirmity, which we can never put off during this mortal life.
St. Francis de Sales Title: Re: "Thy Will Be Done" Post by: Shin on June 15, 2011, 04:38:41 PM God has His own pace for us to proceed?
Title: Re: "Thy Will Be Done" Post by: Brigid on June 15, 2011, 05:12:56 PM |