What Could Begin To Deny Self, If

Receive Every Day As A Resurrection From Death, As A New Enjoyment Of Life.

God Seeth Different Abilities And Frailties Of Men, Which May Move His Goodness To Be Merciful To Their Different Improvements In Virtue.

They, Therefore, Who Are Hasty In Their Devotions And Think A Little Will Do, Are Strangers Both To The Nature Of Devotion And The Nature Of Man; They Do Not Know That They Are To Learn To Pray, And That Prayer Is To Be Learnt As They Learn Other Things, By Frequency, Constancy, And Perseverance.

No Education Can Be Of True Advantage To Young Women But That Which Trains Them Up In Humble Industry, In Great Plainness Of Living, In Exact Modesty Of Dress.

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.