By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.

By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.

Without self-knowledge you have no root in yourselves personally; you may endure for a time, but under affliction or persecution your faith will not last. This is why many in this age (and in every age) become infidels, heretics, schismatics, disloyal despisers of the Church. They cast off the form of truth, because it never has been to them more than a form. They endure not, because they never have tasted that the Lord is gracious; and they never have had experience of His power and love, because they have never known their own weakness and need.

Two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator.

Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it.

Make me what Thou wouldst have me. I bargain for nothing. I make no terms. I seek for no previous information whither Thou art taking me. I will be what Thou wilt make me, and all that Thou wilt make me. I say not, I will follow Thee whithersoever Thou goest, for I am weak, but I give myself to Thee, to lead me anywhither.

The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.