11 June 2019
Consoling Thoughts Father Faber
Why do so many fail? Because they are not silent. Endurance depends much on silence. Power escapes with words. It is only by the help of the grace of silence that the saints carry such heavy crosses. A cross for which we have received sympathy is far heavier than it was before, or it may be that the sympathy has unnerved ourselves, so that the weight seems greater, and a wound in our shoulder sorer. Silence is the proper atmosphere of the cross, and secrecy it’s native climate. The best crosses are secret ones, and we may be silent under those that are not secret.
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