Our Need of Crosses by Fenelon

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 7, 1914

Our Need of Crosses

By Fenelon

WE have need of all our crosses. When we suffer much, it is because we have strong ties that it is necessary to loosen. We resist, and we thus retard the divine operation; we repulse the heavenly hand, and it must come again. It would be wiser to yield ourselves at once to God. That the operation of his providence which overthrows our self-love should not be painful to us would require the intervention of a miracle. Would it be less miraculous that a soul, absorbed in its own concerns, should in a moment become dead to self than that a child should go to sleep a child and wake up a man? — Fenelon.