We Should Even Go Beyond Doing What

Extirpate Two Thoughts Within Thyself: Do Not Consider Thyself Worthy Of Anything Great, And Do Not Think That Any Other Man Is Much Lower Than Thou In Worthiness. Learn Humble Mindedness Beforehand, Which The Lord Commanded In Word And Showed Forth In Deed. Hence, Do Not Expect Obedience From Others, But Be Ready For Obedience Thyself.

The Love Of God Is Not Taught. No One Has Taught Us To Enjoy The Light Or To Be Attached To Life More Than Anything Else. And No One Has Taught Us To Love The Two People Who Brought Us Into The World And Educated Us. Which Is All The More Reason To Believe That We Did Not Learn To Love God As A Result Of Outside Instruction. In The Very Nature Of Every Human Being Has Been Sown The Seed Of The Ability To Love. You And I Ought To Welcome This Seed, Cultivate It Carefully, Nourish It Attentively And Foster Its Growth By Going To The School Of God's Commandments With Help Of His Grace.

Men Whose Sense Of Taste Is Destroyed By Sickness, Sometimes Think Honey Sour. A Diseased Eye Does Not See Many Things Which Do Exist, And Notes Many Things Which Do Not Exist. The Same Thing Frequently Takes Place With Regard To The Force Of Words, When The Critic Is Inferior To The Writer.

No One Who Is In This World Will Deny That Evils Exist. What, Then, Do We Say? That Evil Is Not A Living And Animated Substance, But A Condition Of The Soul Which Is Opposed To Virtue And Which Springs Up In The Slothful Because Of Their Falling Away From Good.

Troubles Are Usually The Brooms And Shovels That Smooth The Road To A Good Man's Fortune.