With God/With God

With God (1911)
by Francis Xavier Lasance

With God

3889554With God — With God1911Francis Xavier Lasance

With God

Maxims and Counsels of Saints and Spiritual Writers

1

IF you wish to raise a lofty edifice of perfection, take humility for your foundation. — St. Thomas Aquinas: Sermon X.

2

Cast thy heart firmly on the Lord, and fear not the judgment of man, when thy conscience gives testimony of thy piety and innocence.

Though St. Paul endeavored to please all in the Lord and made himself all unto all; though he labored for the edification and salvation of others as much as he could — nevertheless, he could not prevent his being sometimes judged or despised by others; yet he made little account of his being judged by the judgment of men (i Cor. iv. 3). He committed all to God, Who knows all, and defended himself by patience and humility against the tongues of those who spoke evil, or that thought and gave out at pleasure vain and faulty things of him; however, he answered them sometimes, lest his silence might give occasion of scandal to the weak.

"Who art thou, that thou shouldst be afraid of a mortal man?" (Is. li. 12). To-day he is and tomorrow he appears no more (i Mach. ii. 63). Fear God, and thou shalt have no need of being afraid of man. Look up to Me (to the Lord thy God) in heaven, Who am able to deliver thee from all confusion and wrongs, and to repay every one according to his works (Matt. xvi. 27). — Thomas d Kempis: Book III, Ch. XXXVI.

3

A BEAUTIFUL flower is humility; beautiful is patience, obedience, meekness, modesty, and every other virtue; but the most beautiful is charity. — Blessed Jourdain de Saxe: Letter XXXIII.

4

HE is most powerful who loves most. — St. Gregory the Great: "Life of St. Benedict," Ch. XXXIIL

The best of all prayers is that in which we ask that God's holy will may be accomplished, both in ourselves and in others. — Venerable Louis de BloiSy O.S.B,

5

GOD regards the motive and not the action. It is not the importance of the action that He considers, but the excellence of the intention, the love which prompted it. — St. Gregory the Great, O.S.B.

6

So great is the goodness of God in your regard, that, when you ask through ignorance for that which is not beneficial, He does not grant your prayer in this matter, but gives you something better instead. — St, Bernard, O. Cist.

7

To love God truly one must have three hearts in one: a heart all on fire for God; a heart full of charity for his neighbor; and a heart of flint for himself. — Bl. Benedict Joseph Lahre.