Our piety must be weak and imperfect if it do not conquer our fear of death.

He who prays without confidence cannot hope that his prayers will be granted.

I no longer desire anything but to be Thine.

So long as we are full of self we are shocked at the faults of others. Let us think often of our own sin, and we shall be lenient to the sins of others.

Violent excitement exhausts the mind and leaves it withered and sterile.

Commit yourself then to God! He will be your guide. He Himself will travel with you, as we are told He did with the Israelites, to bring them step by step across the desert to the promised land. Ah! what will be your blessedness, if you will but surrender yourself into the hands of God, permitting Him to do whatever He will, not according to your desires, but according to His own good pleasure?

That love of self, which the world advocates, is a thousand times more dangerous than any poison.