The Passion Of Acquiring Riches In Order

Exactness And Neatness In Moderation Is A Virtue, But Carried To Extremes Narrows The Mind.

Genuine Good Taste Consists In Saying Much In Few Words, In Choosing Among Our Thoughts, In Having Order And Arrangement In What We Say, And In Speaking With Composure.

Let Me Follow In Thy Footsteps, O Jesus ! I Would Imitate Thee, But Cannot Without The Aid Of Thy Grace! O Humble And Lowly Saviour, Grant Me The Knowledge Of The True Christian, And That I May Willingly Despise Myself; Let Me Learn The Lesson So Incomprehensible To The Mind Of Man, That I Must Die To Myself By An Abandonment That Shall Produce True Humility.

I Am Not In The Least Surprised That Your Impression Of Death Becomes More Lively, In Proportion As Age And Infirmity Bring It Nearer. God Makes Use Of This Rough Trial To Undeceive Us In Respect To Our Courage, To Make Us Feel Our Weakness, And To Keep Us In All Humility In His Hands.

As A General Rule, Those Truths Which We Highly Relish, And Which Shed A Degree Of Practical Light Upon The Things Which We Are Required To Give Up For God, Are Leadings Of Divine Grace, Which We Should Follow Without Hesitation.