Simplicity Is That Grace Which Frees The

That Love Of Self, Which The World Advocates, Is A Thousand Times More Dangerous Than Any Poison.

True Prayer Is Only Another Name For The Love Of God. Its Excellence Does Not Consist In The Multitude Of Our Words; For Our Father Knoweth What Things We Have Need Of Before We Ask Him. The True Prayer Is That Of The Heart, And The Heart Prays Only For What It Desires. To Pray, Then Is To Desire -- But To Desire What God Would Have Us Desire. He Who Asks What He Does Not From The Bottom Of His Heart Desire, Is Mistaken In Thinking That He Prays.

The Greatest Of All Crosses Is Self. If We Die In Part Every Day, We Shall Have But Little To Do On The Last. These Little Daily Deaths Will Destroy The Power Of The Final Dying.

You Can Often Help Others More By Correcting Your Own Faults Than Theirs. Remember, And You Should, Because Of Your Own Experience, That Allowing God To Correct Your Faults Is Not Easy. Be Patient With People, Wait For God To Work With Them As He Wills.

Faith Is Letting Down Our Nets Into The Transparent Deeps At The Divine Command, Not Knowing What We Shall Draw.