Guidance & Wisdom
By often repeating these acts, they become habitual, and the presence of God is rendered as it were natural to us.
That in order to form a habit of conversing with GOD continually, and referring all we do to Him; we must at first apply to Him with some diligence.
God has infinite treasure to bestow, and we take up with a little sensible devotion.
Let us thus think often that our only business in this life is to please GOD, that perhaps all besides is but folly and vanity.
Our sanctification did not depend upon changing our works, but in doing that for GOD’s sake, which we commonly do for our own.
Hold yourself in prayer before God, like a dumb or paralytic beggar at a rich man’s gate.
Many do not advance in the Christian progress, because they stick in penances, and particular exercises, while they neglect the love of GOD, which is the end. That this appeared plainly by their works, and was the reason why we see so little solid virtue.
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