True Consolation Is To Be Sought In God
Whatsoever I can desire or imagine for my comfort, I look not for it in this life, but hereafter.
For if I alone should have all the comforts of this world, and might enjoy all its delights, it is certain that they could not last long.
O my soul, you cannot be fully comforted, nor be perfectly delighted but in God, the comforter of the poor and the supporter of the humble.
Expect a little while, my soul, wait for the divine promise, and thou will have plenty of all that is good in heaven.
If thou desirest too inordinately these present things, thou wilt lose those that are heavenly and everlasting.
Let the temporal things serve thy use, but the eternal be the object of thy desire. Thou cannot be fully satisfied with any temporal good, because thou was not created for the enjoyment of such things.
Although thou should have all created goods, yet this could not make thee happy and blessed; but in God, who created all things, thy beatitude and happiness consist. (Imitation of Christ)
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