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We May Justly Condemn Ourselves As The Greatest Sinners We Know Because We Know More Of The Folly Of Our Own Heart Than We Do Of Other People's.

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.

Where Has The Scripture Made Merit The Rule Or Measure Of Charity?.

He Who Has Learned To Pray Has Learned The Greatest Secret Of A Holy And Happy Life.

Until We Are Renewed In The Spirit Of Our Mind And Illumined In Every Part, Our Very Virtues Are But Taught Practices Grafted Upon A Corrupt Bottom