Here are some beautiful quotes and bible verses about trusting God during your “dark night of the soul” as what St. John of Cross called it. No one has not experienced difficulties in life not even the great ones, even our Lord Jesus Christ lived in poverty and sufferings on earth.
We live in a truly unique era, don’t we? An era that attacks the health of the mind and spirit. It has swept the waves of society like wildfire. Who better to call unto than those who have surpassed life’s temporary sufferings with great victory? The Saints!
What to do? Listen to the Eternal Truth, to the Word of God. We are placed on this earth to know, love, and serve God. We are here not to seek pleasure and wealth, but to work for our salvation. And that is the reality of your existence! Profit from your adversity by bearing them bravely!
Beautiful Saints Quotes to live by when you feel discouraged
- “Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.” St Catherine of Siena
- “Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” Francis of Assisi
- “Know that the greatest service that man can offer to God is to help convert souls.” St. Rose of Lima
- “There is no man in the world without some trouble or affliction, though he be a king or a pope.” (Thomas a Kempis)
- “All the joys of this life are accompanied by sorrows: if they were not, we would grow too much absorbed in them.” (St. Teresa of Avila, Doctor of the Church)
- “Endure your trials as ‘discipline’; God treats you as sons. For what ‘son’ is there whom his father does not discipline?” (Heb. 12:7)
- “In sending us tribulations, God intends to make us saints.” (St. Alphonsus Liguori, Doctor of the Church)
- “Bear everything with peace.” (St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina)
- “Cast all your worries upon him because he cares for you.” (1 Pt. 5:7)
- “[W]ithout the battle there is no victory” (St.. John of Avila)
- “He did not say: You will not be troubled – you will not be tempted – you will not be distressed. But He said: You will not be overcome.” {“Blessed” Julian of Norwich}
- “The crown of victory is promised only to those who engage in the struggle.” (St. Augustine, Doctor of the Church)
- “In fact, all who want to live religiously in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.” (2 Tm. 3:12)
- “What was done on Calvary avails for us only in the degree that we repeat it in our own lives.” (Archbishop Fulton Sheen)
- “Thank and sweetly kiss the hand of God that strikes you, because it is always the hand of a Father who strikes you because he loves you.” Padre Pio
- “Nothing is harder to bear than those things which wound our self-love; but if we thought of the humiliations suffered by Jesus Christ at Bethlehem, should we ever dare to complain?” (St. John Vianney)
- “You wonder why God, who is goodness itself, allows us to suffer… But, what would you think of a doctor who lost his patient because he was afraid to give him the necessary but unpleasant treatment?” (St. John Vianney)
- “Watch and pray that you may not undergo the test. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.” (Our Lord Jesus Christ, Mt. 26:41)
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