Salvation

We know the value of our soul by the efforts that God makes to save it and the demon to cast it into perdition. All Hell is leagued against it, all Heaven in its favor. Oh, how inestimable it must be !

To form an idea of our dignity, we must often think of Heaven, Calvary and Hell.

We are as little mirrors in which God contemplates Himself.

We are in this world but not of this world, since we daily repeat these words, Our Father Who Art In Heaven.

We are much, and we are nothing. . . There is nothing more grand than man when we regard his soul, nothing less so when we regard his body.

We occupy ourselves with the body as if our greatest care, our sole care, should be for it ; while, on the contrary, our greatest care should be to despise it.

How shameful it is for man to descend so low — man, whom God has placed so high !

Good Christians, who labor to secure their salvation, are always content and happy ; for they enjoy in advance the happiness of Heaven, and they will be happy during all eternity ; while bad Christians, who take no thought for their souls, are greatly to be pitied ; they murmur, they are sad, they are miserable in this world, and they will be so during all eternity. What a contrast !