“George MacDonald gives me renewed strength during times of trouble--times when I have seen people tempted to deny God--when he says, "The Son of God suffered unto death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like his.”
Source: Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
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Source: Discipleship (1937), Discipleship and the Cross, p. 87.
Context: God honors some with great suffering and grants them the grace of martyrdom, while other are not tempted beyond their strength. But in every case it is one cross.
It is laid on every Christian. The first Christ-suffering that everyone has to experience is the call which summons us away from our attachments to this world. It is the death of the old self in the encounter with Jesus Christ. Those who enter into discipleship enter into Jesus' death.
“I thank God for giving me the grace to suffer; I need it so much!”
André Bessette (1845–1937) Canadian Catholic brother and saint
Saint André Bessette: Montreal’s Miracle Worker https://catholicism.org/br-andre.html
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[2019, Esoterism as Principle and as Way, World Wisdom, 139, 978-1-93659765-9]
Spiritual life, Trials
He Who Lets Us Be: A Theology of Love (1975), p. 4
