If We Had Strength And Faith Enough

It Is When God Appears To Have Abandoned Us That We Must Abandon Ourselves Most Wholly To God.

To Just Read The Bible, Attend Church, And Avoid “big” Sins-is This Passionate, Wholehearted Love For God?

God Felt, God Tasted And Enjoyed Is Indeed God, But God With Those Gifts Which Flatter The Soul, God In Darkness, In Privation, In Forsakenness, In Sensibility, Is So Much God, That He Is So To Speak God Bare And Alone. Shall We Fear This Death, Which Is To Produce In Us The True Divine Life Of Grace?

Worry Is The Cross Which We Make For Ourselves By Over Anxiety.

On This Earth All Is Temptation. Crosses Tempt Us By Irritating Our Pride, And Prosperity By Flattering It. Our Life Is A Continual Combat, But One In Which Jesus Christ Fights For Us. We Must Pass On Unmoved, While Temptations Rage Around Us, As The Traveler, Overtaken By A Storm, Simply Wraps His Cloak More Closely About Him, And Pushes On More Vigorously Toward His Destined Home.