He Who Has Learned To Pray Has

If Anyone Would Tell You The Shortest, Surest Way To All Happiness And All Perfection, He Must Tell You To Make A Rule To Yourself To Thank And Praise God For Everything That Happens To You.

We May Justly Condemn Ourselves As The Greatest Sinners We Know Because We Know More Of The Folly Of Our Own Heart Than We Do Of Other People's.

Perfection Does Not Consist In Any Singular State Or Condition Of Life, Or In Any Particular Set Of Duties, But In Holy And Religious Conduct Of Ourselves In Every State Of Life.

We Have All Of Us Free Access To All That Is Great, And Good, And Happy, And Carry Within Ourselves A Key To All The Treasures That Heaven Has To Bestow Upon Us. We Starve In The Midst Of Plenty, Groan Under Infirmities, With The Remedy In Our Own Hand; Live And Die Without Knowing And Feeling Anything Of The One Only God, Whilst We Have It In Our Power To Know And Enjoy It In As Great A Reality As We Know And Feel The Power Of This World Over Us; For Heaven Is As Near To Our Souls As This World Is To Our Bodies; And We Are Created, We Are Redeemed, To Have Our Conversation In It.

They, Therefore, Who Are Hasty In Their Devotions And Think A Little Will Do, Are Strangers Both To The Nature Of Devotion And The Nature Of Man; They Do Not Know That They Are To Learn To Pray, And That Prayer Is To Be Learnt As They Learn Other Things, By Frequency, Constancy, And Perseverance.