Why We Are In This World

'It is God's will we are fulfilling, 

and this is precisely why we should hasten to do it,

for we are in this world for no other purpose.... 

How can we go on saying that we belong to Him 

if we are not prepared to make our will fit in with His?'

St. Francis de Sales


Painting:  Rogier van de Weyden, Descent from the Cross (detail: Mary Magdalene) 

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