If You Carry Your Cross Joyfully, It

A Wise And Good Man Will Turn Examples Of All Sorts To His Own Advantage. The Good He Will Make His Patterns, And Strive To Equal Or Excel Them. The Bad He Will By All Means Avoid.

Set Not Thyself To Attain Much Rest, But Much Patience.

He Who Knows Himself Well Is Mean And Abject In His Own Sight, And Takes No Delight In The Vain Praise Of Men.

Is A Man One Whit The Better Because He Is Grown Great In Other Men's Esteem?

For It Is The Grace Of Christ, And Not Our Own Virtue, That Gives Us The Power To Overcome The Flesh And The World.