Status Updates From Le Courage d'avoir peur

Almost at the end of this incredible book and I want to hurry up and finish it just to start it all over again! God is everything. We can do nothing without Him. Have courage to surrender. Have courage to be afraid so His mercy can take care of you.

...ask Christ for the flexibility that let's itself be converted, touched, purified by the Holy Ghost. ... our job is to cultivate this flexibility and to resist pride of life ... the three forms of pride of life: the love of riches; the passions of the heart, as soon as they become intoxicating (even when they are more spiritual); and the spirit of independence.

Have reread the last 20 pages painstakingly because so dense my poor mind cannot take in...

'...the more gently He proceeds, the longer it takes. Normally the treatment requires years. . . perhaps a whole lifetime, if we are not predestined to be completely cured before our death. . . or if our free will does not allow God to go any faster.' 😭

At the Resurrection, our body will be tailor-made so as to bear the glory of the soul. In the meantime, the invasion of Love is a danger of death, even for the saints, because it is an infinite life flooding into a vessel of clay, unfit to bear it.

One of the best spiritual books I’ve ever read.