God Requires A Faithful Fulfillment Of The

Don't Sow Your Desires In Someone Else's Garden; Just Cultivate Your Own As Best You Can; Don't Long To Be Other Than What You Are, But Desire To Be Thoroughly What You Are. Direct Your Thoughts To Being Very Good At That And To Bearing The Crosses, Little Or Great, That You Will Find There. Believe Me, This Is The Most Important And Least Understood Point To The Spiritual Life. We All Love According To What Is Our Taste; Few People Like What Is According To Their Duty Or To God's Liking. What Is The Use Of Building Castles In Spain When We Have To Live In France?

A Judicious Silence Is Always Better Than Truth Spoken Without Charity.

One Of The Most Evil Dispositions Possible Is That Which Satirizes And Turns Everything To Ridicule. God Abhors This Vice, And Has Sometimes Punished It In A Marked Manner

People Can Pass Thirty Nights In Dancing And No One Complains About It, But If They Watch Through A Single Christmas Night They Cough And Claim Their Stomach Is Upset The Next Morning. Does Anyone Fail To See That The World Is An Unjust Judge, Gracious And Well Disposed To Its Own Children But Harsh And Rigorous Towards The Children Of God?

Go To Your Confessor; Open Your Heart To Him; Display To Him All The Recesses Of Your Soul; Take The Advice That He Will Give You With The Utmost Humility And Simplicity. For God, Who Has An Infinite Love For Obedience, Frequently Renders Profitable The Counsels We Take From Others, But Especially From Those Who Are The Guides Of Our Souls.