Perfection does not consist in any singular state or condition of life, or in any particular set of duties, but in holy and religious conduct of ourselves in every state of Life.

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Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic...

Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic...

Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the...

Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the...

What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his...

What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his...

Receive every day as a resurrection from death, as a new enjoyment of life; meet...

Receive every day as a resurrection from death, as a new enjoyment of life; meet...

No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them...

No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them...

Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will...

Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will...

Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite,...

Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite,...

Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.

Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love,...

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love,...

Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our...

Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our...

Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the...

Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the...

He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and...

He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and...

If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end...

If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end...

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from...

What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from...

Humility is nothing else but a right judgment of ourselves.

Humility is nothing else but a right judgment of ourselves.

Be intent upon the perfection of the present day

Be intent upon the perfection of the present day

Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how...

Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how...

Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns...

Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns...

Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men,...

Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men,...