Consider seriously how quickly people change, and how little trust is to be had in them; and hold fast to God, Who does not change.

The same know contentment, for beauty is their lover, and beauty is never absent from this world.

Consider seriously how quickly people change, and how little trust is to be had in them; and hold fast to God, Who does not change.

I am quite sure that if we could but once approach the Most Holy Sacrament with great faith and love, it would suffice to make us rich. How much more so if we approach it often!

I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.

What value is there in faith without works? And what are they worth if they are not united to the merits of Jesus Christ, our only good?

If we do not use great care to mortify our will, there are many things which can deprives us of the holy freedom of spirit that we are seeking in order to fly more freely to our Creator, without always being bogged down with the clay of this earth. Moreover, there can never be solid virtue in a soul that is attached to its own will.