Hope & Comfort
The Evil One delights in sadness and melancholy, because they are his own characteristics.
Never permit your soul to be sad and live in bitterness of spirit or scrupulous fear, since He who loved it and died to give it life is so good, so sweet, so amiable.
He who lives but for God is never sad, save at having offended God.
God never permits such grievous temptations and assaults to try any, save those souls whom He designs to lead on to His own living, highest love.
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