…we must not only have faith in Him, but must wait on Him;
not only must hope, but must watch for Him; not only love Him, but must long
for Him; not only obey Him, but must look out, look up earnestly for our
reward, which is Himself. We must not
only make Him the Object of our faith, hope, and charity, but we must make it
our duty not to believe the world, not to hope in the world, not to love the
world. We must resolve not to hang on
the world's opinion, or study its wishes. It is our mere wisdom to be thus detached from
all things below. "The time is
short," says the Apostle; "it remaineth that they who weep be as
though they wept not, and they that rejoice as if they rejoiced not, and they
that buy as though they possessed not, and they that use this world as if they
used it not, for the fashion of this world passeth away." ~Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman, "Waiting for Christ"
But I will look towards the Lord,
I will wait for God my Saviour:
my God will hear me.
~Micah 7:7
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