Be Not Miserable About What May Happen

How Are You To Meet The Swarm Of Foolish Attachments, Triflings, And Undesirable Inclinations Which Beset You? By Turning Sharply Away, And Thoroughly Renouncing Such Vanities, Flying To The Saviour's Cross, And Clasping His Crown Of Thorns To Your Heart, So That These Little Foxes May Not Spoil Your Vines. Beware Of Entering Into Any Manner Of Treaty With The Enemy; Do Not Delude Yourself By Listening To Him While Intending To Reject Him.

Do Not Lose Courage In Considering Your Own Imperfections.

O My Child, Bethink You That Just As The Bee, Having Gathered Heaven's Dew And Earth's Sweetest Juices From Amid The Flowers, Carries It To Her Hive; So The Priest, Having Taken The Saviour, God's Own Son, Who Came Down From Heaven, The Son Of Mary, Who Sprang Up As Earth's Choicest Flower, From The Altar, Feeds You With That Bread Of Sweetness And Of All Delight.

Do Not Look Forward To The Changes And Chances Of This Life In Fear; Rather Look To Them With Full Hope That, As They Arise, God, Whose You Are, Will Deliver You Out Of Them. He Is Your Keeper. He Has Kept You Hitherto. Do You But Hold Fast To His Dear Hand, And He Will Lead You Safely Through All Things; And, When You Cannot Stand, He Will Bear You In His Arms. Do Not Look Forward To What May Happen Tomorrow. Our Father Will Either Shield You From Suffering, Or He Will Give You Strength To Bear It.

Do Not Fret Under Such Assistance As Is Needful; Therein Lies One Great Grace Of Poverty. It Were Overambitious To Aim At Being Poor Without Suffering Any Inconvenience, In Other Words, To Have The Credit Of Poverty And The Convenience Of Riches.