“In time of affliction and, above all bodily sickness [depression is in the body], when the heart is often much weakened and without power of prayer, we must not oblige ourselves to try to pray, because simple acts of consent to the will of God, from time to time, are quite enough. In any case, suffering which is borne by the will, with patience and gentleness, forms an unending and all-powerful prayer in the sight of God, in spite of the complaining and anxiety, which may be felt in our lower nature.”
— St. Jane Francis de Chantal
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