Must you continue to be your own cross? No matter which way God leads you, you change everything into bitterness by constantly brooding over everything. For the love of God, replace all this self-scrutiny with a pure and simple glance at God's goodness.
Jane Frances de ChantalHold your eyes on God and leave the doing to him. That is all the doing you have to worry about.
Jane Frances de ChantalCordial love of the neighbor does not consist in feelings. This love flows not from a heart of flesh but from the heart of our will.
Jane Frances de ChantalWhen shall it be that we shall taste the sweetness of the Divine Will in all that happens to us, considering in everything only His good pleasure, by whom it is certain that adversity is sent with as much love as prosperity, and as much for our good? When shall we cast ourselves undeservedly into the arms of our most loving Father in Heaven, leaving to Him the care of ourselves and of our affairs, and reserving only the desire of pleasing Him, and of serving Him well in all that we can?
Jane Frances de Chantal