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Why Me? Why This?



There are many times in our earthly journey when we might ask ourselves: “Why is God giving this particular cross to me?” or even “Has God forgotten me?” It is on those occasions when we should ponder and draw solace and strength from this eternal but forgotten and rarely shared Truth:



“It is one of the most firmly established and most consoling of the truths that have been revealed to us that [apart from sin] nothing happens to us in life, unless God wills it so.


                 (St. Claude de la Colombiere, S.J. from Trustful Surrender to Divine Providence)


[Just one of the 1200 challenging, inspiring and instructive quotations you will read in Forgotten Truths to Set Faith Afire!] 

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