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

by Saint de Sales Francis

252.

There are two kinds of wills: one says, “I would like very much to do good; but it costs a disagreeable effort; it is too difficult;” the other says: “I desire indeed to do good; the will is not wanting, but the power alone stops me.” The first fills hell, the second paradise, and it was the latter will which caused Daniel to be called a “man of desires.”