If, Therefore, A Man Will So Live

We Have All Of Us Free Access To All That Is Great, And Good, And Happy, And Carry Within Ourselves A Key To All The Treasures That Heaven Has To Bestow Upon Us. We Starve In The Midst Of Plenty, Groan Under Infirmities, With The Remedy In Our Own Hand; Live And Die Without Knowing And Feeling Anything Of The One Only God, Whilst We Have It In Our Power To Know And Enjoy It In As Great A Reality As We Know And Feel The Power Of This World Over Us; For Heaven Is As Near To Our Souls As This World Is To Our Bodies; And We Are Created, We Are Redeemed, To Have Our Conversation In It.

He That Rightly Understands The Reasonableness And Excellency Of Charity Will Know That It Can Never Be Excusable To Waste Any Of Our Money In Pride And Folly.

Devotion Signifies A Life Given, Or Devoted, To God. He Therefore Is The Devout Man, Who Lives No Longer To His Own Will, Or The Way And Spirit Of The World, But To The Sole Will Of God, Who Considers God In Everything, Who Serves God In Everything, Who Makes All The Parts Of His Common Life, Parts Of Piety, By Doing Everything In The Name Of God, And Under Such Rules As Are Conformable To His Glory.

If Someone Is Leaving You Behind, And You Are Becoming Jealous And Embittered, Keep Praying That He May Have Success In The Very Matter Where He Is Awakening Your Envy; And Whether He Is Helped Or Not, One Thing Is Sure, That Your Own Soul Will Be Cleansed And Ennobled.

We May Justly Condemn Ourselves As The Greatest Sinners We Know Because We Know More Of The Folly Of Our Own Heart Than We Do Of Other People's.