If We Are Abandoned To

It Is In The Middle That Human Choices Are Made; The Beginning And The End Remain With God. The Decrees Of God Are Birth And Death, And In Between Those Limits Man Makes His Own Distress Or Joy.

The Historic Idea That The Devil Tempts Men Had This Remarkable Effect, It Produced The Man Of Iron Who Fought; The Modern Idea Of Blaming His Heredity Or His Circumstances Produces The Man Who Gives In At Once.

A Saint Realizes That It Is God Who Engineers His Circumstances; Consequently There Are No Complaints, Only Unrestrained Surrender To Jesus.

Our Spiritual Life Cannot Be Measured By Success As The World Measures It, But Only By What God Pours Through Us- And We Cannot Measure That At All

God's Will Is Hard Only When It Comes Up Against Our Stubbornness, Then It Is As Cruel As A Ploughshare And As Devastating As An Earthquake.