If you are poor in spirit you learn not to care, in the sense of not endlessly fretting and worrying, even about your own state of soul….a negative view of morality…Morality for the Christian is religion; and religion is love; and love is not a negative but creative thing.  To know and love and serve: the moral life is a question first of what we ought to be, and only then, in consequence, of what we ought to do—and only thirdly, by implication, of what we ought not to do.

You have, or will have, your real problems to face; and you must face them squarely, think them out as best you can, pray and take advice, docile to God and His representatives; but then, when a decision is reached, you must rest in God, leave it to Him, refuse to keep going over and over the same ground, refuse to become introspective, and set yourself, instead, to the positive task of Life, the outward turning and love of God and His family, be active and creative in the work He has given you to do.   –Father Gerald Vann ‘The Divine Pity’

Father Gerald Vann