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So Great Is The Compassion Excited In Mary By Our Misery, And Such Is The Love That She Bears Us, That She Prays Constantly, And Relaxes Not Her Efforts In Our Behalf.

Many, However, Gives Themselves To God, But Preserve Still In Their Hearts Some Attachment To Creatures, Which Prevents Them From Belonging Entirely To God.

The Way To Heaven Is Straight And Narrow: They Who Wish To Arrive At That Place Of Bliss By Walking In The Paths Of Pleasure Shall Be Disappointed; And Therefore Few Reach It, Because Few Are Willing To Use Violence To Themselves In Resisting Temptations.

St. Jerome Declares That He Holds For Certain, And Has Learned From Experience, That He Will Never Make A Good End Who Has Led A Bad Life To The Very Last: 'this I Hold, This I Have Learned By Much Experience, That His Will Be An Evil End Who Has Always Led An Evil Life.'

As All Our Wickedness Consists In Turning Away From Our Creator, So All Our Goodness Consists In Uniting Ourselves With Him.