The more the flesh is wasted by affliction, so much more is the Spirit strengthened by inward grace.

Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.

For it is the grace of Christ, and not our own virtue, that gives us the power to overcome the flesh and the world.

Let not therefore thy heart be troubled, neither let it fear. Trust in me, and put thy confidence in my mercy. When thou thinkest thyself farthest off from me, oftentimes I am nearest unto thee. When thou countest almost all to be lost, then oftentimes the greatest gain of reward is close at hand. All is not lost, when any thing falleth out contrary. Thou oughtest not to judge according to present feeling; nor so to take any grief, or give thyself over to it.

Study to do another's will rather than thine own. Choose ever to have less rather than more. Seek ever the lower place and to be subject to all; ever wish and pray that the will of God may be perfectly done in thee and in all. Behold such a man enters the bounds of peace and calm.

So passes away the glory of this world. ('Sic transit gloria mundi.')

Sweet shall be your rest if your heart does not reproach you.