“Our Lord,” says St Francis de Sales, “never ceases to exhort, to promise, to threaten, to forbid, to command and to inspire us in the interior of our souls, in order to turn our wills away from sin; and He leaves nothing undone for this end short of depriving us of our liberty.”  The Divine Will has been manifested to us times beyond number, and in different ways.  With a perfectly clear knowledge of what it requires from us in a matter of capital importance, indifference on our part would be criminal.  We must consequently make up our minds to carry on the combat without truce or quarter, and to expect no other assistance than the grace to prayer and fidelity.  —Abbot ‘Holy Abandonment’