Oh! How Seldom The Soul Is Silent,

Make This Simple Rule The Guide Of Your Life: To Have No Will But God's.

Let Me Follow In Thy Footsteps, O Jesus ! I Would Imitate Thee, But Cannot Without The Aid Of Thy Grace! O Humble And Lowly Saviour, Grant Me The Knowledge Of The True Christian, And That I May Willingly Despise Myself; Let Me Learn The Lesson So Incomprehensible To The Mind Of Man, That I Must Die To Myself By An Abandonment That Shall Produce True Humility.

This Poor World, The Object Of So Much Insane Attachment, We Are About To Leave; It Is But Misery, Vanity, And Folly; A Phantom--the Very Fashion Of Which "passeth Away.

Time Spent In Prayer Is Never Wasted.

A General Rule For The Good Use Of Time Is To Accustom Oneself To Live In A Continual Dependence On The Spirit Of God.