He, who relies upon God, becomes by this very reliance as powerful and as invincible as God, and created powers can no more prevail against him than against God Himself. This confidence in the fatherly providence of God can not, evidently, dispense us from doing all that is in our power to accomplish His designs; but, after having done all that depends upon our efforts, we will abandon ourselves completely to God for the rest.
"When we will what God wills," says St. Alphonsus, "it is our own greatest good that we will; for God desires what is for our greatest advantage. Let your constant practice be to offer yourself to God, that He may do with you what He pleases.,, God can not be deceived and we may rest assured that what He determines will be best for us. Can there be a better prayer than this: "Fiat Voluntas Tua!" "Thy Will be done!" "My Lord, My God, and My All!"
10. — Holy Indifference: Self-Immolation
To be "in tune with the Infinite" means, in a truly Christian sense, to live in perfect conformity with the will of God; it means, in its perfect sense, not only submission or resignation to the divine will, but thorough self-abandonment, prompted by the pure love of God; it means the cultivation of that peaceable state — "the peace of expectant love" — which St. Francis of Sales calls "holy indifference" — "a word we now understand to mean," as we read in his "Life" by De Margerie, "not the coldness, the torpor of a heart, that
