My advice is to put confidence in prayer. I repeat it in prayer, whatever your state of mind. It is indeed a great, fatal delusion, to cease from prayer because a fault has been committed. Such discouragement is not in accordance with God's will, who well knows our pitiableness and never asks our confidence more than when all seems lost. Indeed God adopts in relation to us, many titles directly encouraging in times of great distrust. He is a father, a physician, a good shepherd, the prodigal's father even, and we have these names to choose from among them that which best suits our actual condition.
We ought, to give ourselves up to the feeling that corresponds to the one chosen, as, gratitude, love, or perhaps confusion, grief, and regret, though these last should be filial and accompanied by a lively confidence in God's goodness. Such is His way founded on His will; anything else arises from self-love for the natural man, and can lead us to no good. For the rest we must never neglect vigilance. Our Lord Jesus Christ linked these two rules together; watch and pray.
- Pere Cestac
Why should you suppose God is far off because you cannot perceive Him? He is always, you may be sure, near to those whose hearts are blank and sorrowful.
- Fenelon
We ought, to give ourselves up to the feeling that corresponds to the one chosen, as, gratitude, love, or perhaps confusion, grief, and regret, though these last should be filial and accompanied by a lively confidence in God's goodness. Such is His way founded on His will; anything else arises from self-love for the natural man, and can lead us to no good. For the rest we must never neglect vigilance. Our Lord Jesus Christ linked these two rules together; watch and pray.
- Pere Cestac
Why should you suppose God is far off because you cannot perceive Him? He is always, you may be sure, near to those whose hearts are blank and sorrowful.
- Fenelon
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