When a man of good will is troubled or tempted, or afflicted with evil thoughts, then he better understand what need he hath of God, without whom he finds he can do no good. Then also he laments, he sighs and prays, by reason of the miseries which he suffers.
-Bk. I, ch. xii.
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It is often the purest souls who are the most assailed by temptations and kept in spiritual darkness. They think that they have lost their spotless purity, and that the thorns that surround them have torn their petals. But it is the lilies among thorns that are the most carefully guarded, and in whom Our Lord takes delight: Blessed is the man that endureth temptation (James i, 12).
-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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