It Is Right That You

Without A Doubt, One Of The Things Which Keeps Us From Attaining Perfection Is Our Tongue. When One Has Reached The Point Of No Longer Committing Faults In Speech, He Has Surely Reached Perfection, As Was Said By The Holy Spirit. The Worst Defect In Talking Is Talking Too Much. Hence, In Speech Be Brief And Virtuous, Brief And Gentle, Brief And Simple, Brief And Charitable, Brief And Amiable.

Consider All The Past As Nothing, And Say, Like David: Now I Begin To Love My God.

Naturally We All Have An Inclination To Command, And A Great Aversion To Obey; And Yet It Is Certain That It Is More For Our Good To Obey Than To Command; Hence Perfect Souls Have Always Had A Great Affection For Obedience, And Have Found All Their Joy And Comfort In It.

Examine From Time To Time What Are The Dominant Passions Of Your Soul, And Having Ascertained This, Mold Your Life, So That In Thought, Word, And Deed You May As Far As Possible Counteract Them.

If You Have To Do With One Who Is Unquestionably A Slanderer, Do Not Excuse Him By Calling Him Frank And Free-spoken; Do Not Call One Who Is Notoriously Vain, Liberal And Elegant; Do Not Call Dangerous Levities Mere Simplicity; Do Not Screen Disobedience Under The Name Of Zeal; Or Arrogance, Of Frankness; Or Evil Intimacy, Of Friendship. No, My Friends, We Must Never, In Our Wish To Shun Slander, Foster Or Flatter Vice In Others: But We Must Call Evil Evil, And Sin Sin, And So Doing We Shall Serve God's Glory.