Whenever you begin any good work you should first of all make a most pressing appeal to Christ our Lord to bring it to perfection.

Listen and attend with the ear of your heart.

Listen carefully, my child, to your master's precepts, and incline the ear of your heart. Receive willingly and carry out effectively your loving father's advice, that by the labor of obedience you may return to Him from whom you had departed by the sloth of disobedience.

Whenever you begin any good work you should first of all make a most pressing appeal to Christ our Lord to bring it to perfection.

The sleepy like to make excuses.

To attribute to God, and not to self, whatever good one sees in oneself; but to recognize always that the evil is one's own doing, and to impute it on one's self.

Prayer ought to be short and pure, unless it be prolonged by the inspiration of Divine grace.