We should begin to understand in some small way, how it is saints love and yearn for poverty, humiliations, and sufferings, as worldly people thirst for wealth, and power, and pleasure. After awhile there would spring up and strengthen in us a vigorous disrelish of what keeps us from loving and serving God alone. Then, indeed, life would be worth living.The only life worth living is the Christian, crucified life, according to the state and duty of each Christian.
Link (here) to the quote contained in the essay entitled "The Life worth Living" by Fr. William Sutton, S.J.
Painting is The Virgin appearing to Dominican Saints by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo the original is held at Santa Maria del Rosario (Gesuati), Venice
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