Walter Ciszek, a Jesuit priest who spent 20 years imprisoned by the Soviet Union, said that, even in his darkest hours, his faith helped him survive:
The circumstances of each day of our lives, of every moment of every day, are provided for us by him. Let the theologians argue about how this is so, let the philosophers and sophisticates of this world question and doubt whether it can be so; the revealed truth we have received on God’s own word simply says that it is so. But maybe we are all just a little afraid to accept it in all its shattering simplicity, for its consequences in our lives are both terrible and wonderful.
If it all seems too simple, you have only to try to find how difficult it is. But you have only to try it to find out as well the joy and peace and happiness it can bring. For what can ultimately trouble the soul that accepts every moment of every day as a gift from the hands of God and strives always to do his will?
--Walter Ciszek,
quoted by Billy Critchley-Menor, SJ,
Jesuit Post
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