During The Night We Must Wait For

We Are Sometimes So Busy Being Good Angels That We Neglect To Be Good Men And Women.

If You Have To Do With One Who Is Unquestionably A Slanderer, Do Not Excuse Him By Calling Him Frank And Free-spoken; Do Not Call One Who Is Notoriously Vain, Liberal And Elegant; Do Not Call Dangerous Levities Mere Simplicity; Do Not Screen Disobedience Under The Name Of Zeal; Or Arrogance, Of Frankness; Or Evil Intimacy, Of Friendship. No, My Friends, We Must Never, In Our Wish To Shun Slander, Foster Or Flatter Vice In Others: But We Must Call Evil Evil, And Sin Sin, And So Doing We Shall Serve God's Glory.

To Lose Ourselves In God Is Simply To Give Up Our Own Will To Him. When A Soul Can Truly Say Lord I Have No Other Will Than Thine It Is Truly Lost In God And United To Him.

If After All Your Efforts You Cannot Succeed, You Could Not Please Our Lord More Than By Sacrificing To Him Your Will, And Remaining In Tranquility, Humility, And Devotion, Entirely Conformed And Submissive To His Divine Will And Good Pleasure.

The Truly Patient Man Neither Complains Of His Hard Lot Nor Desires To Be Pitied By Others. He Speaks Of His Sufferings In A Natural, True, And Sincere Way, Without Murmuring, Complaining, Or Exaggerating Them.