When We Pray We Speak To God;

Catch, Then, O Catch The Transient Hour; Improve Each Moment As It Flies!

It Is No Fault Of Christianity That A Hypocrite Falls Into Sin.

No One Loves To Tell Of Scandal Except To Him Who Loves To Hear It. Learn, Then, To Rebuke And Check The Detracting Tongue By Showing That You Do Not Listen To It With Pleasure.

If Christ Did Not Want To Dismiss The Jews Without Food In The Desert For Fear That They Would Collapse On The Way, It Was To Teach Us That It Is Dangerous To Try To Get To Heaven Without The Bread Of Heaven.

Who Would Have Believed That The Daughters Of That Mighty City Would One Day Be Wandering As Servants And Slaves On The Shores Of Egypt And Africa, Or That Bethlehem Would Daily Receive Noble Romans, Distinguished Ladies, Brought Up In Wealth And Now Reduced To Beggary? I Cannot Help Them All, But I Grieve And Weep With Them, And Am Completely Absorbed In The Duties Which Charity Imposes On Me. I Have Put Aside My Commentary On Ezekiel And Almost All Study. For Today We Must Translate The Precepts Of The Scriptures Into Deeds; Instead Of Speaking Saintly Words, We Must Act Them.