The Divine Will of God
Our greatest fault is that we wish to serve God in our way, not in His Way -- according to our will,
not according to His Will. When He wishes us to be Sick, we wish to be Well; when He desires us to serve Him by Sufferings, we desire to
serve Him by Works; when He wishes us to exercise Charity, we wish to exercise Humility; when He seeks from us Resignation, we wish for
Devotion, a Spirit of Prayer or some other virtue. And this is not because the things we desire may be more pleasing to Him, but because
they are more to our taste. This is certainly the greatest obstacle we can raise to our own perfection, for it is beyond doubt that if
we were to wish to be Saints according to our own will, we shall never be so at all. To be truly a Saint, it is necessary to be one
according to the Will of God.
Saint Francis de Sales
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