QUOTATION: Worthiness

You don’t have to be worthy, you only have to be willing.

--St. Padre Pio

QUOTATION: A Resolute Will

A resolute will overcomes everything; for when once a soul determines really to give itself wholly to God, God immediately gives it the hand and the strength to surmount all difficulties that may occur in the way of perfection.

--St. Alphonsus Liguori, The Incarnation, Birth and Infancy of Jesus Christ

QUOTATION: Prayer

Indeed, prayer reaches its culmination and thus becomes a source of inner light when the spirit of the human being adheres to that of God, and their respective wills merge, as it were, to become a whole.

--Pope Benedict XVI, Angelus March 8, 2009

QUOTATION: Crush the Will

That will of the old man must be mortified. It is always trying to rebel. Crush it. It is always saying: « It is enough », or else, « After awhile » Take hold of that will, and pitilessly immolate it at every moment. Contradict it in everything that it wants to do. Here it is that a man must hate his soul to possess it, and lose it to gain it.

--St. Peter Julian Eymard

QUOTATION: We Become What We Love

The will, on the contrary, when it loves anything above it in dignity goes out to meet the demands of whatever it loves. When the will loves anything that is below it in dignity, it degrades itself. Suppose the dominant love of man was money. Man would degrade himself by loving what is less worthy than himself. In loving it, he becomes like gold. If a man loves only lust, carnality, and the pleasure of the flesh above all things, he degrades his spirit to the sole level of sex. We become like that which we love. If we love what is base, we become base; but if we love what is noble, we become noble.

--Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, Life is Worth Living

QUOTATION: Giving up our will to God

To lose ourselves in God is simply to give up our own will to Him. When a soul can truly say, 'Lord, I have no other will than Yours,' it is truly lost in God, and united to Him.

--St. Francis de Sales