God's Power is His Love

Never forget that God's power is His love, and that our misery is no obstacle to that love.  On the contrary, St. Francis de Sales affirms that our need serves as a kind of throne for Divine Love.  We think too much about our own wretched selves, and that is why we are so unhappy.  

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It is not a question, as you may well imagine, of getting rid of all our faults and failures, but of turning to God with these very faults and failings, and of giving ourselves to Him just as we are.  How many souls would enjoy divine peace, if only they realized this and acted on it.  We spend our time bemoaning our faults and looking at ourselves, instead of looking at Him and growing greater.  For that is what He is - Infinite Love, longing for us to give ourselves to Him so that he may give Himself to us.  

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All we need is good will and grace (which is God's good will): the two forces that make saints.  Let us, then, resolutely put aside our fears, and throw ourselves joyfully into that filial confidence which is the first and last word of the Gospel.  You must not think of yourself as carrying a lonely burden of existence and life.  There could not be a more fatal mistake.  God is offering Himself to us in order that He may fill our soul's loneliness and turn our desolation into joy.  The desolation is on the shifting surface of the soul, where the devil loves to make trouble, whereas the joy is the real and substantial depth where God is giving Himself...Enter thou into the joy of the Lord.

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They Speak by Silences,

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