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Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.
Simplicity is that grace which frees the soul from all unnecessary reflections upon itself.
The passion of acquiring riches in order to support a vain expense corrupts the purest souls.
It is when God appears to have abandoned us that we must abandon ourselves most wholly to God.
I would have no desire other than to accomplish thy will. Teach me to pray; pray thyself in me.
Crosses are of no use to us but inasmuch as we yield ourselves up to them and forget ourselves.
The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of other people.
All wars are civil ones; for it is still man spilling his own blood, tearing out his own bowels.
Let us often think of our own infirmities, and we shall become indulgent toward those of others.
That love of self, which the world advocates, is a thousand times more dangerous than any poison.
Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer.
Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies
If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate.
The blood of a nation ought never to be shed except for its own preservation in the utmost extremity.
Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies.
We can often do more for other men by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct theirs.
Can we be unsafe where God has placed us, and where He watches over us as a parent a child that he loves?
A good historian is timeless; although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect.
To just read the Bible, attend church, and avoid “big” sins-is this passionate, wholehearted love for God?
Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.
How desirable is this simplicity! Who will give it to me? I will quit all else; it is the pearl of great price.
Faith is letting down our nets into the transparent deeps at the Divine command, not knowing what we shall draw.
Be content with doing calmly the little which depends upon yourself, and let all else be to you as if it were not.
No human power can force the intrenchments of the human mind: compulsion never persuades; it only makes hypocrites.
A general rule for the good use of time is to accustom oneself to live in a continual dependence on the Spirit of God.
Most people I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing in return and I do very well in the bargain.
It is often our own imperfection which makes us reprove the imperfection of others; a sharp-sighted self-love of others
God would behold in you a simplicity which will contain so much the more of His wisdom as it contains less of your own.
Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.
True piety hath in it nothing weak, nothing sad, nothing constrained. It enlarges the heart; it is simple, free, and attractive.
Before putting yourself in peril, it is necessary to foresee and fear it; but when one is there, nothing remains but to despise it.
All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.
Nothing marks so much the solid advancement of a soul, as the view of one's wretchedness without anxiety and without discouragement.
We must avoid fastidiousness; neatness, when it is moderate, is a virtue; but when it is carried to an extreme, it narrows the mind.
The history of the world suggests that without love of God there is little likelihood of a love for man that does not become corrupt.
To be faithful in prayer it is indispensable that we arrange all the activities of the day with a regularity that nothing can disturb
The art of cookery is the art of poisoning mankind, by rendering the appetite still importunate, when the wants of nature are supplied.
Time is given us that we may take care for eternity; and eternity will not be too long to regret the loss of our time if we have misspent it.
If the crowns of all the kingdoms of the empire were laid down at my feet in exchange for my books and my love of reading I would spurn them all.
The smallest things become great when God requires them of us; they are small only in themselves; they are always great when they are done for God.
Let us endeavor to commence every enterprise with a pure view to the glory of God, continue it without distraction, and finish it without impatience.
I believe that we are conforming to the divine order and the will of Providence when we are doing even indifferent things that belong to our condition.
So long as we are full of self we are shocked at the faults of others. Let us think often of our own sin, and we shall be lenient to the sins of others.
Real friends are our greatest joy and our greatest sorrow. It were almost to be wished that all true and faithful friends should expire on the same day.
Blessed are the poor in spirit." Blessed are they who are stripped of every thing, even of their own wills, that they may no longer belong to themselves.
God never ceases to speak to us, but the noise of the world without and the tumult of our passions within bewilder us and prevent us from listening to him
As long as anything in this world means anything to you, your freedom is only a word. You are like a bird that is held by a leash; you can only fly so far.
All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.
In the light of eternity we shall see that what we desired would have been fatal to us, and that what we would have avoided was essential to our well-being.
Accustom yourself gradually to carry Prayer into all your daily occupation - speak, act, work in peace, as if you were in prayer, as indeed you ought to be.