For this slight momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, because we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen; for the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal. ~2 Corinthians 4:17-18
The vicissitudes that God allots you of good fortune and of bad, of health and of sickness, are well calculated to keep you wholly dependent upon him and to constrain you to perform the most meritorious acts of trust. Our troubles, rightly used, become greatly lessened and proportionately profitable. Worthy endurance of them is a great sacrifice comparable to that of those noble Christians who of old confessed their faith at the stake, since life's sufferings and the sorrows of circumstance provide the martyrdoms of Providence, even as the tortures of tyrants provided martyrdoms for faith and religion.
~Father Jean-Pierre de Caussade, S.J., in Self-Abandonment to Divine Providence
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