“He is with me and what can I fear? I look neither behind nor before, only up.” – St. Elizabeth Ann Seton – Lord, with you at my side, fear has no place in my life. Increase my faith in you.
“You must not be surprised or frightened by one bad year or by several. God is infinitely rich. Until now, nothing has been wanting to you, why fear for the future?” – St. Vincent de Paul Lord, when I reflect on all you have done for me in the past...
In order to become soundly virtuous it is advisable to make good practical resolution concerning particular acts of the virtues and to be faithful in carrying them out afterward. Without doing that, one is often virtuous only in one’s imagination (II:217).
