The past is no longer yours; the future is not yet in your power. You have only the present wherein to do good.

He who prays most receives most.

A person may be Baptized, and yet not born again to grace, in consequence of not having the necessary dispositions at Baptism.

Yet you should practice the greatest possible love and confidence in treating with Him.

He who suffers in patience, surfers less and saves his soul. He who suffers impatiently, suffers more and loses his soul.

St. Augustine and St. Thomas define mortal sin to be a turning away from God: that is, the turning of one's back upon God, leaving the Creator for the sake of the creature. What punishment would that subject deserve who, while his king was giving him a command, contemptuously turned his back upon him to go and transgress his orders? This is what the sinner does; and this is punished in hell with the pain of loss, that is, the loss of God, a punishment richly deserved by him who in this life turns his back upon his sovereign good.

He who wishes to find Jesus should seek Him, not in the delights and pleasures of the world, but in mortification of the senses.