Choose a topic from Part 2B:
1. Faintheartedness or pusillanimity is a culpable dispositionto refuse to face up to situations of difficulty that one mightwell handle and overcome. By presumption, a man takes on more thanhe can handle; by faintheartedness, a man refuses to do what hecan. This faintheartedness is a sin. The servant who buried his onetalent because he was too fainthearted to engage in trade with it,was punished, as for a sin (Matt., chap. 15).
"The name of Jesus, pronounced with reverence and affection, has a kind of power to soften the heart. "
St Philip Neri
* * *
"A single act of uniformity with the divine will suffices to make a saint."
St Alphonsus de Liguori
* * *
"The greatest glory we can give to God is to do his will in everything."
St Alphonsus de Liguori
* * *