What Can You Conceive More Silly And

When Therefore The First Spark Of A Desire After God Arises In Thy Soul, Cherish It With All Thy Care, Give All Thy Heart Into It; It Is Nothing Less Than A Touch Of The Divine Loadstone, That Is To Draw Thee Out Of The Vanity Of Time, Into The Riches Of Eternity.

He That Rightly Understands The Reasonableness And Excellency Of Charity Will Know That It Can Never Be Excusable To Waste Any Of Our Money In Pride And Folly.

Divine Love Is Perfect Peace And Joy, It Is A Freedom From All Disquiet, It Is All Content And Happiness; And Makes Everything To Rejoice In Itself.

What Can You Conceive More Silly And Extravagant Than To Suppose A Man Racking His Brains, And Studying Night And Day How To Fly? ... Wearying Himself With Climbing Upon Every Ascent, ... Bruising Himself With Continual Falls, And At Last Breaking His Neck? And All This, From An Imagination That It Would Be Glorious To Have The Eyes Of People Looking Up At Him, And Mighty Happy To Eat, And Drink, And Sleep, At The Top Of The Highest Trees In The Kingdom.

Let Every Creature Have Your Love. Love, With Its Fruits Of Meekness, Patience, And Humility, Is All That We Can Wish For Ourselves And Our Fellow Creatures. For This Is To Live In God, United With Him, Both For Time And Eternity. To Desire To Communicate Good To Everyone, In The Degree That We Can And To Which Each Person Is Capable Of Receiving From Us, Is A Divine Temper, For Thus God Stands Unchangeably Disposed Towards The Whole Creation.