God will not be outdone in generosity.

If anyone asks you for something that you believe would be injurious to him, refuse, but in such a manner as not to lose his good-will.

God inclines to shower His graces upon us, but our perverted will is a barrier to His generosity.

Discouragement is not from God.

Pray as if God will take care of all; act as if all is up to you.

But some most worthless persons are in the habit of carrying about the name of Jesus Christ in wicked guile, while yet they practice things unworthy of God, and hold opinions contrary to the doctrine of Christ, to their own destruction, and that of those who give credit to them, whom you must avoid as ye would wild beasts.

In the case of those who are making progress from good to better, the good angel touches the soul gently, lightly, sweetly, as a drop of water enters a sponge, while the evil spirit touches it sharply, with noise and disturbance, like a drop of water falling on a rock.