Below are words spoken by St. Robert Bellarmine, a Doctor of the Church. These words can be found in his work entitled, On the Ascent of the Mind to God.
"May you consider truly good whatever leads to your goal and truly evil whatever makes you fall away from it. Prosperity and adversity, wealth and poverty, health and sickness, honors and humiliations, life and death, in the mind of the wise man, are not to be sought for their own sake, nor avoided for their own sake. But if they contribute to the glory of God and your eternal happiness, then they are good and should be sought. If they detract from this, they are evil and must be avoided."
it is good to put oneself under the Doctor's care to sustain the health of your soul.
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