When I read the old words of Christians from long ago, my soul settles down.
Here is one of Brother Lawrence's thoughts, which helps me...
Let us think often that our only business in this life is to please God, and that all besides is but folly and vanity.
And from Jeanne Guyon...
Abandonment is the key to the inward spiritual life, it is one thing to reach this state; it is another thing to remain there.
Abandonment is casting off all your cares, dropping all your needs. Abandonment is practiced by continually losing your own will in the will of God.
In the past it was natural for you to live on the surface of your being; now it will be your habit to live in the center of your being where your Lord dwells.
Simply keep returning to Him each time you have wandered away. When something is repeated over and over, it becomes a habit. This is true even of your soul. After much practice your soul forms the habit of turning inward to God.
From Mother Theresa...
We learn humility through accepting humiliations cheerfully.
Make sure that you let God’s grace work in your souls by accepting whatever he gives you, and giving him whatever he takes from you.
Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting.
Our vocation, to be beautiful, must be full of thought for others.
The personal love Christ has for you is infinite; the small difficulty you have with His Church is finite. Overcome the finite with the infinite.
From Jean Pierre de Caussade...
There remains one single duty. It is to keep one’s gaze fixed on the master one has chosen and to be constantly listening so as to understand and hear and immediately obey his will.
Souls, once they have surrendered themselves to his action, see everything that happens to them in a favourable light.
