Be Patient With Everyone, But Above All

Is It Not A Great Temptation To Be So Valiant In Imagination And So Cowardly In Execution?

Chastity Is The Lily Of Virtues, And Makes Men Almost Equal To Angels. Everything Is Beautiful In Accordance With Its Purity. Now The Purity Of Man Is Chastity, Which Is Called Honesty, And The Observance Of It, Honor And Also Integrity; And Its Contrary Is Called Corruption; In Short, It Has This Peculiar Excellence Above The Other Virtues, That It Preserves Both Soul And Body Fair And Unspotted.

Anxiety Is The Greatest Evil That Can Befall A Soul, Except Sin. God Commands You To Pray, But He Forbids You To Worry.

For Every Great Temptation There Will Be Many Small Ones. Wolves And Bears Are More Dangerous Than Flies, But We Are Bothered Most By Flies.

The Enemy Often Tries To Make Us Attempt And Start Many Projects So That We Will Be Overwhelmed With Too Many Tasks, And Therefore Achieve Nothing And Leave Everything Unfinished. Sometimes He Even Suggests The Wish To Undertake Some Excellent Work That He Foresees We Will Never Accomplish. This Is To Distract Us From The Prosecution Of Some Less Excellent Work That We Would Have Easily Completed. He Does Not Care How Many Plans And Beginnings We Make, Provided Nothing Is Finished.