“Many love Christ as long as they encounter no hardship; many praise and bless him as long as they receive some comfort from him. But if Jesus hides himself and leaves them for a while, they either start complaining or become dejected. Those, on the contrary, who love him for his own sake and not for any comfort of their own, praise him both in trial and anguish of heart as well as in the bliss of consolation. Even if Jesus should never comfort them, they would continue to praise and thank him. What power there is in a pure love for Jesus—love that is free from all self-interest and self-love!”
“God often gives in one brief moment that which He has for a long time denied.”
“Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.”
“In Jesus and for Him, enemies and friends alike are to be loved.”
“If thou bear the cross cheerfully, it will bear thee.”
– Thomas a Kempis