Maxims and counsels of St. Francis de Sales for every day of the year

by Saint de Sales Francis

162.

The monastery is a hospital of spiritual sick who desire to be cured, and to this end submit themselves to the knife, to the lancet, to be burned, to be bled, and to all kinds of bitter remedies. O my very dear daughter, firmly resolve that you will submit to all this, and pay no attention to what self-love may urge to the contrary, but sweetly, amiably, and lovingly take the blessed resolution: to die or to be cured.