We must detach ourselves from the natural desire to see good results in everything we say or do, to feel that we are making progress, to have everything go our own way. Leave to God the ultimate outcome of your life’s work. Persuade yourself that in the spiritual life God sets greater value on the sincerity of your will than on the perfection of your works. Compel yourself to execute your good purposes; act as though all depended upon you, but afterwards realize without any depressing sorrow that you have done nothing. Man is strong only in his desires, and God accepts sincere desires, as though they were realities. Great or small, confide the execution of all your projects to Jesus. If they are for His glory, He will execute them through you, or through one who is even weaker than you. God has no need of our works; He wants only a sincere will to do what He asks.