rejoice if God found a use for your efforts

"I don't know Who -- or what -- put the question, I don't know when it was put. I don't even remember answering. But at some moment I did answer Yes to Someone --or Something --and from that hour I was certain that existence is meaningful and that, therefore, my life, in self-surrender, had a goal."

"In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action."

“We act in faith—and miracles occur.”

“Your own efforts ‘did not bring it to pass,’ only God—but rejoice if God found a use for your efforts in his work. Rejoice if you feel that what you did was 'necessary,' but remember, even so, that you were simply the instrument by means of which He added one tiny grain to the Universe He has created for His own purposes."
(written Christmas Eve, 1956, Markings)

~ Dag Hammarskjöld, 1905 - 1961,
Swedish economist and diplomat,
second Secretary-General of the United Nations