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Purity And Simplicity Are The Two Wings With Which Man Soars Above The Earth And All Temporary Nature.

Our Dependence Upon God Ought To Be So Entire And Absolute That We Should Never Think It Necessary, In Any Kind Of Distress, To Have Recourse To Human Consolations.

My God, Sweetness Beyond Words, Make Bitter All The Carnal Comfort That Draws Me From Love Of The Eternal And Lures Me To Its Evil Self By The Sight Of Some Delightful Good In The Present. Let It Not Overcome Me, My God. Let Not Flesh And Blood Conquer Me. Let Not The World And Its Brief Glory Deceive Me, Nor The Devil Trip Me By His Craftiness. Give Me Courage To Resist, Patience To Endure, And Constancy To Persevere. Give Me The Soothing Unction Of Your Spirit Rather Than All The Consolations Of The World, And In Place Of Carnal Love, Infuse Into Me The Love Of Your Name.

In Judging Others A Man Laboreth In Vain; He Often Erreth, And Easily Falleth Into Sin; But In Judging And Examining Himself He Always Laboreth To Good Purpose.

At The Day Of Judgment We Shall Not Be Asked What We Have Read But What We Have Done.