You Have Reason To Wonder That You

If We Make A Great Show Of Respect And Love To God, In The Outward Actions, While There Is No Sincerity In The Heart, It Is But Hypocrisy And Practical Lying Unto The Holy One.

I Resolve To Live With All My Might While I Do Live. I Resolve Never To Lose One Moment Of Time And To Improve My Use Of Time In The Most Profitable Way I Possibly Can. I Resolve Never To Do Anything I Wouldn't Do, If It Were The Last Hour Of My Life.

Holiness Appeared To Me To Be Of A Sweet, Pleasant, Charming, Serene, Calm Nature; Which Brought An Inexpressible Purity, Brightness, Peacefulness And Ravishment To The Soul.

The Soul Of A True Christian, As I Then Wrote My Meditations, Appeared Like Such A Little White Flower As We See In The Spring Of The Year; Low And Humble On The Ground, Opening Its Bosom To Receive The Pleasant Beams Of The Sun’s Glory; Rejoicing, As It Were, In A Calm Rapture; Diffusing Around A Sweet Fragrancy; Standing Peacefully And Lovingly, In The Midst Of Other Flowers Round About; All In Like Manner Opening Their Bosoms To Drink In The Light Of The Sun.

If You Seek In The Spirit Of Selfishness, To Grasp All As Your Own, You Shall Lose All, And Be Driven Out Of The World, At Last, Naked And Forlorn, To Everlasting Poverty And Contempt.