Faith & Trust
The important question is not how much you enjoy religion, but whether you will whatever God wills.
We must often raise our hearts to God. He will purify, enlighten, and direct them.
The ways and means of God to draw souls to Himself, accomplish his design much more rapidly and effectually than all the efforts of the creature; for they destroy self-love at its very root, where, with all our pains, we could scarce discover it.
Abandon yourself as absolutely as possible to God, and continue to do so to your latest breath, and He will never desert you.
I have no doubt but that God constantly treats you as one of his friends, that is, with crosses, sufferings, and humiliations.
Let us turn our hearts toward God in a simple, familiar spirit, full of confidence in him.
We must prefer God before ourselves, and endeavor to will our own happiness for his glory.
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