Seek not to penetrate into futurity, neither encourage a habit of anticipating good or evil. Our trials do not always come from those occasions we may have foreseen— God frequently takes us by surprise, and sometimes in those objects on which we most fondly rest our hearts and in those moments when we think ourselves most secure. The evils which we have imagined for ourselves often vanish before the eye of reason and it is not in our own power to choose where the blow shall fall.
Let then, the obedience of every day be your daily bread: live upon the will of your God: He provides for you celestial manna. Be satisfied with it; it is not in your power to lay it up in store, or to say how much of it God shall give you. All that you have to do is to use it in such proportions as you receive it.
Strive to live your life in peace, simplicity and resignation. Place your hopes of happiness in God, and not in His creatures, and you will then be secure. For on Him you may rely with full confidence.
- Fenelon
Do all things with holy simplicity, without regard to anything but to please God.
- Scupoli
Let then, the obedience of every day be your daily bread: live upon the will of your God: He provides for you celestial manna. Be satisfied with it; it is not in your power to lay it up in store, or to say how much of it God shall give you. All that you have to do is to use it in such proportions as you receive it.
Strive to live your life in peace, simplicity and resignation. Place your hopes of happiness in God, and not in His creatures, and you will then be secure. For on Him you may rely with full confidence.
- Fenelon
Do all things with holy simplicity, without regard to anything but to please God.
- Scupoli
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