
“Let us be what we are, and be that well, so that we may bring honor to the Master Craftsman whose handiwork we are. People laughed at the painter who, intending to paint a horse, came up with a perfect bull; the work was handsome in itself, but not much credit to the artist who had had other plans and succeeded in this one only by chance. Let us be what God wants us to be, provided we are His, and let us not be what we would like to be, contrary to His intention. Even if we were the most perfect creatures under heaven,what good would that do us if we were not as God’s will would have us be?”
–Saint Francis de Sales in a letter to Madame Brulart, June 10, 1605 Quoted in Francis de Sales, Jane de Chantal:Letters of Spiritual Direction (Peronne Marie Thibert, VHM trans.), New York: Paulist Press, 1988, p. 111
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