Pondering Tidbits of Truth is my simple and inadequate way of providing nuggets
of spiritual wisdom for you to chew on from time to time.
St. Francis de Sales
"Our greatest fault is that we wish
to serve God in our way, not in His way – according to our will, not according
to His will…This is certainly the greatest obstacle we can raise to our own
perfection, for it is beyond doubt that if we wish to be Saints according to
our own will, we shall never be so at all. To be truly a Saint, it is necessary
to be one according to the will of God.”
St. Bernard
"What is it, O my God, that we expect to gain by appearing
well before creatures, and by pleasing them? What does it matter to us if we
are blamed by them, and considered worthless, provided we are great and
faultless before You? The Saints had no greater pleasure than to live unknown and
abject in the hearts of all.”
St. Vincent de Paul
"Whoever wishes to make progress in perfection should use
particular diligence in not allowing himself to be led away by his passions,
which destroy with one hand the spiritual edifice which is rising by the labors
of the other. But to succeed well in this, resistance should be begun while the
passions are yet weak; for after they are thoroughly rooted and grown up, there
is scarcely any remedy.”
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