Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.

Read whatever chapter of scripture you will, and be ever so delighted with it - yet it will leave you as poor, as empty and unchanged as it found you unless it has turned you wholly and solely to the Spirit of God, and brought you into full union with and dependence upon him.

Joseph has lately endeavored to seduce my wife, and has found her a virtuous woman.

Let every creature have your love. Love, with its fruits of meekness, patience, and humility, is all that we can wish for ourselves and our fellow creatures. For this is to live in God, united with him, both for time and eternity. To desire to communicate good to everyone, in the degree that we can and to which each person is capable of receiving from us, is a divine temper, for thus God stands unchangeably disposed towards the whole creation.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.

Nothing harms or destroys us but the wrong use of that liberty of choice which God has entrusted to us.