Ave Maria!— July’s Theme: Temptation
19- “Trust with unlimited trust in the Divine Goodness, and the more the enemy increases the violence, the more you must trustingly abandon yourself on the most sweet bosom of the heavenly Spouse, Who will never permit you to be overcome. To persuade oneself of the contrary is an infidelity, and God forbid us from falling into a similar monstrosity.”
20- “The best remedy for defeating our enemy is that of despising him in the name of Jesus and to laugh loudly at him. He makes himself strong with those who are weak, but with those who confront him their weapons in their hands, he becomes a coward. Fear him, too, but with that holy fear, I mean to say, with that fear that is never separated from love.”
21- “Who agitates you and torments you is satan; Who enlightens you and consoles you is God. The soul which is lead ever more to abase itself and to humble itself before its Lord, and at the same time is driven to suffer all, to support all with the aim of encountering the approval of its heavenly Spouse, cannot but recognize that this comes from God. The ardent desires of love of the soul towards its Lord are not and cannot be hallucinations or illusions.”
“The ardent desires of love of the soul towards its Lord are not and cannot be hallucinations or illusions.”
Glad to read this!