Let it be your desire to see God, your fear to lose Him, your sorrow
not yet to possess Him, and your joy to do everything that can lead
you to Him; you will then live in the abundance of peace.--_St.
Teresa._
Remember that you have but one soul; that you will die but once; that
you have but one life, and that a very short one; but one glory, and
that eternal; your heart will then detach itself from everything.--
_The same._
The soul that loves God lives more in the next world than in this;
because the soul lives more in the object of its love than in the
subject which it animates.--_St. John of the Cross._
The true widow of the Church is a little March violet. By her devotion
she spreads a sweet perfume. She usually keeps herself hidden under
the leaves of her abjection, and her mortification is seen by her
quiet, modest demeanour.--_St. Francis of Sales._