Time is given us that we may take care for eternity; and eternity will not be too long to regret the loss of our time if we have misspent it.

Even if no command to pray had existed, our very weakness would have suggested it.

When you come to be sensibly touched, the scales will fall from your eyes; and by the penetrating eyes of love you will discern that which your other eyes will never see.

Be content with doing calmly the little which depends upon yourself, and let all else be to you as if it were not.

Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer, and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble.

It is only by fidelity in little things that the grace of true love to God can be sustained, and distinguished from a passing fervor of spirit. . . . No one can well believe that our piety is sincere, when our behavior is lax and irregular in its little details. What probability is there that we should not hesitate to make the greatest sacrifices, when we shrink from the smallest?

Were in prayer, as indeed you ought to be.