Putting Our Sufferings Into Perspective

Look often with your inward eyes on Christ Jesus, crucified, naked, blasphemed, slandered, forsaken and overwhelmed by every kind of weariness, sorrow and labor. Remember that your sufferings are not comparable to His either in quality or quantity and that you can never suffer for His sake anything equal to what he suffered for you.

(From Introduction to the Devout Life by St. Frances de Sales)

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It's Time to Strike the Right Balance

(Source: Wikimedia Commons ) “When I thought of God’s judgment too long, I grew fearful, and if I thought too long of God’s mercy, I grew lax. And this experience has taught me to sing not alone the mercies of the Lord, and not alone in His judgment, but judgment and mercy together in one embrace.” (St. Bernard of Clairvaux)

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Image Source: Wikimedia Commons ) In the end it does not really matter whether I am successful in a thousand and one other things. In the end the only thing that matters is whether or not I save my soul. And it is up to me! – Father Winfrid Herbst, S.D.S.

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