“We
have no need that God should attack in us that which is lifeless and
unresponsive. (It is the living only that must die). ...You asked
for a remedy that your problems might be cured. You do not need to
be cured, you need to be slain. ...So do not ask for either remedies
or sustenance. Do not even ask for death. To ask death is
impatience. And to ask food or remedies is only to prolong the
agony. What then shall we do? Do nothing. Seek to nothing. Simply
confess everything, not as a means of getting relief, but because of
humble desire to yield unto Jesus.
...You
see, the point is not how you are to be sustained and kept alive, but
how you are to give up and die.” ~ Fenelon
What an awesome quote, Toni! Just love it. He really boils it down to the crux of the matter..."to give up and die." One of the hardest things in the Christian life, but the most important.
ReplyDeleteI thought this a good quote as well! I was struck with the thought that even to ask death is impatience! Amazing. Yet true.
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