Life of St John Vianney.pdf - the Catholic Kingdom!

""We"We""THE LOVE OF GOD. 259times, God chastises those whom He loves. It is not so.To those whom God loves, trials are not chastisements, butgraces. We must not look at the labour, but at therecompense. A merchant looks not at the toil which hiscommerce costs him, but at the profit he makes byit.What are twenty or thirty years compared with eternity ?After all, what have we to suffer ? A few humiliations,a few rebuffs, a sharp word or two these : things do notkill."Oh, how blessed a thingit is that we can please God,little and low as we are !Our tongues ought to be used only to pray, outhearts to love, our eyes to weep.are great, and we are nothing. There is nothinggreater than man, and nothing less.Nothing greater, asregards his soul; nothing less, as regards his body. Wetake such care of our body, as if we had nothing else tocare for ; whereas, on the contrary,it is the only thingwe ought to despise.are God s work. A man always loves his ownwork. It is easy to understand that we are God s work ;but that the crucifixion of God should be our work, is incomprehensible.Some people suppose that God the Father has a hardheart. Oh, how do they deceive themselves ! The EternalFather, to disarm His own justice, has given a heart ofexceeding tenderness to His Son. No one can give toanother that which he possesses not himself. Our Lordhas said to His Father, Father, punish them not.Our Lord has suffered more than was necessary toredeem us. But what would have satisfied the justice ofHis Father would not have satisfied His own love. Without the death of our Lord, all the race of men put toge-