If You Carry Your Cross Joyfully, It

It Is Vanity To Desire A Long Life And To Take No Heed Of A Good Life.

Love Is Watchful. Sleeping, It Does Not Slumber. Wearied, It Is Not Tired. Pressed, It Is Not Straitened. Alarmed, It Is Not Confused, But Like A Living Flame, A Burning Torch, It Forces Its Way Upward And Passes Unharmed Through Every Obstacle.

Habit Is Overcome By Habit. [lat., Consuetudo Consuetudine Vincitur.]

It Thou Seek Rest In This Life, How Wilt Thou Then Attain To The Everlasting Rest? Dispose Not Thyself For Much Rest, But For Great Patience. Seek True Peace--not In Earth, But In Heaven; Not In Men, Nor In Any Other Creature, But In God Alone.

Happy Is The Man Who Renounces Everything Which May Bring A Stain Or Burden Upon His Conscience