O How Quickly Passes Away The Glory

If Your Heart Were Sincere And Upright, Every Creature Would Be Unto You A Looking-glass Of Life And A Book Of Holy Doctrine.

Love Feels No Burden, Thinks Nothing Of Trouble, Attempts What Is Above Its Strength, Pleads No Excuse Of Impossibility; For It Thinks All Things Lawful For Itself, And All Things Possible.

If Thou Hadst Simplicity And Purity, Thou Wouldst Be Able To Comprehend All Things Without Error, And Behold Them Without Danger. The Pure Heart Safely Pervades Not Only Heaven, But Hell.

Simplicity And Purity Are The Two Wings By Which A Man Is Lifted Above All Earthly Things. Simplicity Is In The Intention - Purity In The Affection. Simplicity Tends To God, - Purity Apprehends And Tastes Him.

But Because Many Endeavor To Get Knowledge Rather Than To Live Well, They Are Often Deceived And Reap Little Or No Benefit From Their Labor.