15 February 2019
Consoling Thoughts From Father Faber
While sanctified sorrow melts the heart in kindliness towards others, much more does it absolutely liquefy it, to use the favourite word of mystical writers, in kindness towards God; and this, in the same spirit of contradiction to nature, takes the form of thanksgiving. On natural principles the times of sorrow are the times when we have least to thank God for; but to an enlightened and discerning faith they are the times into which blessings are miraculously compressed, miraculously both for number and for greatness.
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