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x.] The Love of God. 405
woman: He that shall drink of the water that I will give
him, shall not thirst forever? And in another place he
said: Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after justice,
for they shall have their fill? Hence he who loves God
is not afflicted at anything that happens: Whatsoever
shall befall the just man, it shall not make him sad* For
the just man knows that whatever occurs, happens to
him by the will of God. If, says Salvian, the saints are
humbled, they wish for the humiliation; if they are
poor, they rejoice in their poverty; in a word, they wish
only what their God wishes, and therefore they enjoy
continual peace.
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In afflictions it is lawful to pray to
be delivered from them, as Jesus Christ did in the gar
den: My Father, if it be possible, let this chalice pass from
Me? But we must also add with the Redeemer: Never
theless,
not as I will, but as Thou wilt.
It is certain tliat what God wills is best for us.
Father John d Avila once wrote to a sick priest:
Friend, think not of what you would do if
you were
in health, but be content to remain sick as long as it
is it not
shall please God. If
you seek the will of God,
as profitable to you to be sick as to be in health ?"
must be resigned in all things, even in the temptations
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by which we are impelled to offend God. The Apostle
besought the Lord to deliver him from the many temp
tations which he suffered against chastity: There was
given me a sting of my flesh.
. . . For which thing thrice I
Qui autem biberit ex aqua quam ego dabo ei, non sitiet in aeternum.
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iv. 13.
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Beati, qui esuriunt et sitiunt justitiam, quoniam ipsi saturabuntur."
Matth. v. 6.
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Non " contristabit justum, quid quid ei accident." Prov. xii. 21.
Humiles sunt, hoc volunt; pauperes sunt, pauperie delectantur;
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itaque beati dicendi sunt/ De Gub. Dei,
1. i.
"Pater mi, si possibile est, transeat a me calix iste; verumtamen,
non sicut ego volo, sed sicut tu." Matth. xxvi. 39,
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Part 2, ep. 54.