Temptations Are A File Which Rub Off

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.

If God Bores You, Tell Him That He Bores You, That You Prefer The Vilest Amusements To His Presence, That You Only Feel At Your Ease When You Are Far From Him.

Real Friends Are Our Greatest Joy And Our Greatest Sorrow. It Were Almost To Be Wished That All True And Faithful Friends Should Expire On The Same Day.

Simplicity Brings Back The Joys Of Paradise. Not That We Have Pure Pleasure Without A Moment's Suffering, But When We Are Surrendered To God, We Are Not Grasping For Pleasure, And Even Our Troubles Are Received With Thanksgiving. This Inner Harmony, And This Deliverance From Fear And The Tormenting Desires Of Self, Create A Satisfaction In The Soul Which Is Above All The Intoxicating Joys Of This World Put Together.

Let Us Pray God That He Would Root Out Of Our Hearts Every Thing Of Our Own Planting, And Set Out There, With His Own Hands, The Tree Of Life, Bearing All Manner Of Fruits.