"If, devout soul, it is your will to please God and live a life of serenity in this world, unite yourself always and in all things to the divine will. Reflect that all the sins of your past wicked life happened because you wandered from the path of God's will. For the future, embrace God's good pleasure and say to him in every happening: "Yea, Father, for so it hath seemed good in thy sight." "

St Alphonsus de Liguori

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"The greatest glory we can give to God is to do his will in everything."

St Alphonsus de Liguori

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"The essence of perfection is to embrace the will of God in all things, prosperous or adverse. In prosperity, even sinners find it easy to unite themselves to the divine will; but it takes saints to unite themselves to God's will when things go wrong and are painful to self-love. Our conduct in such instances is the measure of our love of God."

St Alphonsus de Liguori

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 St Bernard of Clairvaux   (1090-1153)  Father and Doctor of the Church
Encyclical of Pope Pius XII on St Bernard
 
  ON LOVING GOD
   

By St Bernard of Clairvaux
 

Ch 16. Index of Scripture References.
   
Genesis
1:26 8:21 27:27

Numbers
20:17

Deuteronomy
6:5

Job
7:20 7:21

Psalms
1:6 7 16:2 16:11 18:1 19:7 24:3 24:3 27:8 34:8 34:8 36:4 36:6 36:8 36:8 37:16 37:28 42:2 46:4 46:4 49:18 49:18 50:15 55:6 62:11 68:3 68:13 71:16 73:25 73:26 76:2 77:2 78:8 87 87:2 88:13 94:10 94:17 103:1 106:20 112:2 115:1 116:12 116:15 118:1 118:1 120:5 130:7 136:25 139:16 145:4 145:7 145:16 148:5

Ecclesiastes
5:10

Song of Songs
1 1:8 2:5 2:6 2:11 4:13 5:1 5:1 16

Isaiah
26:7 38:14 43:7 53:12 61:7

Lamentations
3:25

Matthew
5:3 5:6 5:17 5:45 6:10 7:13 11:30 13:48 19:21 25:21 25:34 25:41 25:41 26:29

Luke
6:24 6:38 7:47 10:27 12:31 12:47 20:18 22:30

John
1:16 3:16 3:16 4:34 4:42 5:23 6:54 6:60 6:63 14:6 14:26 15:13

Acts
2:13

Romans
5:10 6:12 7:24 7:24 8:15 8:16 8:18 8:28 8:32 10:12 12:15 13:8

1 Corinthians
1:31 2:9 4:7 4:17 5:9 5:16 6:17 9:20 13:5 13:5 13:5 15:42 15:46 15:46 15:50

Galatians
4:4

Ephesians
5:27 5:29

Philippians
2:10 2:21 3:20

Colossians
3:5

1 Thessalonians
5:21

1 Timothy
1:5 1:9 6:8 6:9

2 Timothy
2:12

Hebrews
9:12

James
1:5 1:14

1 Peter
1:22

1 John
3:18 4:8 4:18 4:19

Revelation
19:9 21:5

Wisdom
9:15

Sirach
18:30 24:20 24:21