Trouble That Is Easily Recognized Is Half-cured.

You Learn To Speak By Speaking, To Study By Studying, To Run By Running, To Work By Working; And Just So, You Learn To Love By Loving. All Those Who Think To Learn In Any Other Way Deceive Themselves.

People Can Pass Thirty Nights In Dancing And No One Complains About It, But If They Watch Through A Single Christmas Night They Cough And Claim Their Stomach Is Upset The Next Morning. Does Anyone Fail To See That The World Is An Unjust Judge, Gracious And Well Disposed To Its Own Children But Harsh And Rigorous Towards The Children Of God?

Obedience Is A Consecration Of The Heart, Chastity Of The Body, And Poverty Of All Worldly Goods To The Love And Service Of God. Blessed Indeed Are The Obedient, For God Will Never Permit Them To Go Astray.

Examine From Time To Time What Are The Dominant Passions Of Your Soul, And Having Ascertained This, Mold Your Life, So That In Thought, Word, And Deed You May As Far As Possible Counteract Them.

A Heart-memory Is Better Than A Mere Head-memory. Better To Carry Away A Little Of The Love Of Christ In Our Souls, Than If We Were Able To Repeat Every Word Of Every Sermon We Ever Heard.