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Rh good, yet couldst thou not be happy thereby nor blessed; but in God, Who created all things, consisteth thy whole blessedness and felicity.

Not such as is seen and commended by the foolish lovers of the world, but such as the good and faithful servants of Christ wait for, and of which the spiritual and pure in heart, whose conversation is in heaven, sometimes have a foretaste.

Vain and brief is all human consolation.

Blessed and true is the consolation which is received inwardly from the truth.

A devout man beareth everywhere about with him his own comforter, and saith unto him, "Be Thou present with me, O Lord , in every time and place.

"Let this be my comfort, to be willing to lack all human comfort.

"And if Thy comfort be wanting, let Thy will and just proving of me be unto me as the greatest comfort; for Thou wilt not always be angry, neither wilt Thou chide for ever."