Page:MaryHelpOfChristians.djvu/418



If the  love  of  God  is  in  your  heart,  you  will understand that  to  suffer  for  God  is  a  joy  to which  all  earthly  pleasures  are  not  to  be  compared.— St. Ignatius.

The world  around  us  is,  as  it  were,  a  book  written by  the  finger  of  God;  every  creature  is  a  word on the  page. We should  apply  ourselves  well  to understand  the  signification  of  the  volume. — Ven. Bartholomew of  Martyrs.

A man  of  prayer  is  capable  of  everything. He can say  with  St.  Paul,  "I  can  do  all  things  in  Him who  strengthened  me." — St. Vincent de  Paul.

Whilst here  below  our  actions  can  never  be  entirely free  from  negligence,  frailty,  or  defect;  but we must  not  throw  away  the  wheat  because  of  the chaff. — Ven. John Tauler.

Strive always  to  preserve  freedom  of  spirit,  so that  you  need  do  nothing  with  the  view  of  pleasing the  world,  and  that  no  fear  of  displeasing  it will  have  power  to  shake  your  good  resolutions. — Ven. Louis de  Blois.

Wo to  us  poor  sinners  if  we  had  not  the  Divine Sacrifice to  appease  the  Lord! — St. Alphonsus.