Where There Is Peace And Meditation, There

Do Not Lose Courage In Considering Your Own Imperfections.

If, When Stung By Slander Or Ill-nature, We Wax Proud And Swell With Anger, It Is A Proof That Our Gentleness And Humility Are Unreal, And Mere Artificial Show.

Do Not Fret Under Such Assistance As Is Needful; Therein Lies One Great Grace Of Poverty. It Were Overambitious To Aim At Being Poor Without Suffering Any Inconvenience, In Other Words, To Have The Credit Of Poverty And The Convenience Of Riches.

O My Child, Bethink You That Just As The Bee, Having Gathered Heaven's Dew And Earth's Sweetest Juices From Amid The Flowers, Carries It To Her Hive; So The Priest, Having Taken The Saviour, God's Own Son, Who Came Down From Heaven, The Son Of Mary, Who Sprang Up As Earth's Choicest Flower, From The Altar, Feeds You With That Bread Of Sweetness And Of All Delight.

How Are You To Meet The Swarm Of Foolish Attachments, Triflings, And Undesirable Inclinations Which Beset You? By Turning Sharply Away, And Thoroughly Renouncing Such Vanities, Flying To The Saviour's Cross, And Clasping His Crown Of Thorns To Your Heart, So That These Little Foxes May Not Spoil Your Vines. Beware Of Entering Into Any Manner Of Treaty With The Enemy; Do Not Delude Yourself By Listening To Him While Intending To Reject Him.