Therese San Severino

"Accordingly, I cannot too greatly admire God's kindness towards you, disciplining you as He does for years at a stretch by this kind of deprivation, designed to break even the least of your attachments. He assails your body with physical ills, in order to detach you from yourself; He assails the soul with weariness, aversions, spiritual insensibility and other disabilities in order to detach you, interiorly, from all sensible aids and consolations. If you allow Him to work freely in you, you will come at last to cling only to Him in pure faith, in pure spirit, and to quote St. Francis de Sales, in the highest part of the soul. Allow, then, the God of goodness to do His work.

For it is indeed

His due that you should put your trust in Him."