Sordid and infamous sensuality, the most dreadful evil that issued from the box of Pandora, corrupts every heart, and eradicates every virtue. Fly! wherefore dost thou linger? Fly, cast not one look behind thee; nor let even thy thought return to the accursed evil for a moment.

Make this simple rule the guide of your life: to have no will but God's.

The most essential point is lowliness.

True prayer is only another name for the love of God. Its excellence does not consist in the multitude of our words; for our Father knoweth what things we have need of before we ask Him. The true prayer is that of the heart, and the heart prays only for what it desires. To pray, then is to desire -- but to desire what God would have us desire. He who asks what he does not from the bottom of his heart desire, is mistaken in thinking that he prays.

Crosses are of no use to us but inasmuch as we yield ourselves up to them and forget ourselves.

Can we be unsafe where God has placed us, and where He watches over us as a parent a child that he loves?

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.