Think about it: don't be afraid of God

"Think of God with benevolence, with righteousness, have a good opinion of Him ... You must not believe that he forgives hardly ... The first thing necessary to love the Lord is to believe him worthy of love ... How many, deep down in the heart, think that there is can easily understand with God? ..

“Many think it inaccessible, touchy, easily disgusted and offended. Yet this fear gives him great pain ... Perhaps our father would like to see us ashamed and trembling in his presence? Much less the heavenly Father ... A mother was never as blind to the defects of her creature as the Lord is to our faults ...

"God is infinitely more ready to sympathize and help, than to punish and blame ... You cannot sin because of overconfidence in God: therefore do not be afraid of abandoning yourself too much to his love ... If you imagine it difficult and unapproachable, if you have fear of him, you will not love him ...

"Past sins, once detested, no longer constitute any obstacle between us and God ... It is absolutely false to think that He holds a grudge for the past ... He forgives everything and no matter how long you delayed before coming to his service ... In a moment God will help you remedy a whole past ... ". (From the thoughts of PD Considine)

“What use would it be, my brothers, if one said he had faith, but did not have the works? Could such faith save him? If a brother or sister were found to be naked and lacking in daily food, and one of you said to them: `` Go in peace, warm up and be satisfied ', but do not give them what is necessary for the body, what would it be for?' ' So too faith, if it does not have works, is dead by itself ... You see, therefore, how man is justified by works and not by faith only ... As the body without spirit is dead, so also faith without works she died "
(St. James, 2,14-26).