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

by Saint de Sales Francis

238.

I will not tell you not to regard your afflictions, for your impulsive heart will answer, “I cannot but consider them, they make themselves so keenly felt;” but I tell you to look at them through the cross, and you will find them so small, or at least so agreeable, that you will rather endure their suffering than all consolations without them.