The Principal Means Of Acquiring An Ardent

If You Wish To Strengthen Your Confidence In God Still More, Often Recall The Loving Way In Which He Has Acted Toward You, And How Mercifully He Has Tried To Bring You Out Of Your Sinful Life, To Break Your Attachment To The Things Of Earth And Draw You To His Love.

Whoever Prays Is Certainly Saved. He Who Does Not Is Certainly Damned. All The Blessed Have Been Saved By Prayer. All The Damned Have Been Lost Through Not Praying. If They Had Prayed They Would Not Have Been Lost. And This Is, And Will Be Their Greatest Torment In Hell: To Think How Easily They Might Have Been Saved, Just By Asking God For His Grace, But That Now It Is Too Late - Their Time Of Prayer Is Gone.

In Temptations Against Chastity, The Spiritual Masters Advise Us, Not So Much To Contend With The Bad Thought, As To Turn The Mind To Some Spiritual, Or, At Least, Indifferent Object. It Is Useful To Combat Other Bad Thoughts Face To Face, But Not Thoughts Of Impurity.

Know Also That You Will Probably Gain More By Praying Fifteen Minutes Before The Blessed Sacrament Than By All The Other Spiritual Exercises Of The Day. True, Our Lord Hears Our Prayers Anywhere, For He Has Made The Promise, 'ask, And You Shall Receive,' But He Has Revealed To His Servants That Those Who Visit Him In The Blessed Sacrament Will Obtain A More Abundant Measure Of Grace.

He Who Wishes To Find Jesus Should Seek Him, Not In The Delights And Pleasures Of The World, But In Mortification Of The Senses.