Words to Live By – From Catholic Tradition
God Sends to Us Life’s Blows and Disappointments for Our Own Good
St. Anthony of Padua, Doctor of the Church, invokes the teaching of Pope St. Gregory the Great, Doctor of the Church, about the Crosses that God sends for our own good:
Constant
temporal success is a sure sign of
eternal damnation.
St. Anthony of Padua, Sermon for the 6th Sunday after Pentecost, quoting Pope St. Gregory the Great, from his work entitled de Moralis, XXVI, 18:35.