The More We Pay For

They, Therefore, Who Are Hasty In Their Devotions And Think A Little Will Do, Are Strangers Both To The Nature Of Devotion And The Nature Of Man; They Do Not Know That They Are To Learn To Pray, And That Prayer Is To Be Learnt As They Learn Other Things, By Frequency, Constancy, And Perseverance.

Hell Is Nothing Else But Nature Departed Or Excluded From The Beam Of Divine Light.

Reading Is Good, Hearing Is Good, Conversation And Meditation Are Good; But Then, They Are Only Good At Times And Occasions, In A Certain Degree, And Must Be Used And Governed With Such Caution As We Eat And Drink And Refresh Ourselves, Or They Will Bring Forth In Us The Fruits Of Intemperance.

Feasts And Business And Pleasure And Enjoyments Seem Great Things To Us, Whilst We Think Of Nothing Else; But As Soon As We Add Death To Them They All Sink Into An Equal Littleness.

We Must Alter Our Lives In Order To Alter Our Hearts, For It Is Impossible To Live One Way And Pray Another.