Saint Francis of Sales: “It is a mistake to desire martyrdom, and not to have the courage to bear an injury”

Source: Benedict_Ven

Saint Francis Of Sales, Introduction To The Devout Life:

“Do not desire crosses, but in proportion to the patience with which you have borne those which have been already sent you; for it is a mistake to desire martyrdom, and not to have the courage to bear an injury.

The enemy often suggests a great desire of things that are absent, and which will never happen to us, that so he may divert our mind from present objects, from which, trivial as they are, we might obtain great profit.

We fight with the monsters of Africa in imagination, and in the mean time, for want of attention, we suffer ourselves to be stung by every insignificant reptile that lies in our way.”