Love feels no burthen, values no labours, would willingly do more than it can; complains not of impossibility, because it conceives that it may and can do all things. It is able, therefore, to do anything, and it performs and effects many things, where he that loves not, faints and lies down.
-Bk. III, ch. v.
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Do not grieve at your apparent helplessness. When we begin the day feeling that we have neither the courage nor the strength for the practice of virtue, this is a grace, for now the axe is laid to the root of the tree (Matt. iii, 10), because we rely upon Our Lord only. If we fall, we make amends by an act of love, and Jesus smiles once more. He helps us without appearing to do so, and our weak, imperfect love wipes away the tears that wicked men cause Him to shed.
Love can do all things; even impossibilities become easy and pleasant. Our Lord does not consider in the first place whether our actions are great, or difficult to perform; He looks above all at the love with which we perform them. So we need have no fear.
-Letters.
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Adapted from Just For Today(©1943 Burns & Oates)
Nihil Obstat: Reginaldus Phillips, S.T.L.,Censor deputatus
Imprimatur: Edwardus Myers, Vic. Cap.
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