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Quote: "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."
St. Francis de Sales
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