Confidence in God-A Prayer by St. Francis de Sales
It is good to mistrust ourselves, but how would that advantage us were we not
to throw all our confidence on God, and to wait on His mercy? If you feel no
such confidence, cease not on that account from making these acts and from
saying to Our Lord: "Yet, O Lord, though I have no feeling of confidence in You,
nevertheless, I know that You are my God, that I am all Yours, and that I have
no hope but in Your goodness; so, I abandon myself entirely into Your Hands."
It is always in our power to make these acts; although we have difficulty in
performing them, still there is no impossibility. Thus we testify faithfulness to our Lord.
