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Let Us Often Think Of Our Own Infirmities, And We Shall Become Indulgent Toward Those Of Others.

When We Are Truly In This Interior Simplicity Our Whole Appearance Is Franker, More Natural. This True Simplicity. . . Makes Us Conscious Of A Certain Openness, Gentleness, Innocence, Gaiety, And Serenity. O, How Amiable This Simplicity Is! Who Will Give It To Me? I Leave All For This. It Is The Pearl Of The Gospel.

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.

God's Treasury Where He Keeps His Children's Gifts Will Be Like Many A Mother's Store Of Relics Of Her Children, Full Of Things Of No Value To Others, But Precious In His Eyes For The Love's Sake That Was In Them.

O God, The Creature Knows Not To What End Thou Hast Made Him; Teach Him, And Write In The Depths Of His Soul That The Clay Must Suffer Itself To Be Shaped At The Will Of The Potter.