Love And Pity And Wish Well To

Now If You Will Stop Here And Ask Yourself Why You Are Not As Pious As The Primitive Christians Were, Your Own Heart Will Tell You That It Is Neither Through Ignorance Nor Inability, But Purely Because You Never Thoroughly Intended It.

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.

Perfection Does Not Consist In Any Singular State Or Condition Of Life, Or In Any Particular Set Of Duties, But In Holy And Religious Conduct Of Ourselves In Every State Of Life.

Man Needs To Be Saved From His Own Wisdom As Much As From His Own Righteousness, For They Produce One And The Same Corruption. Nothing Saves A Man From His Own Righteousness, But That Which Delivers Him From His Own Wisdom.

All That Is Sweet, Delightful, And Amiable In This World, In The Serenity Of The Air, The Fineness Of Seasons, The Joy Of Light, The Melody Of Sounds, The Beauty Of Colors, The Fragrancy Of Smells, The Splendor Of Precious Stones, Is Nothing Else But Heaven Breaking Through The Veil Of This World.