Know what your sin is and confess it; but do not imagine that you have approved yourself a penitent by confessing sin in the abstract.
Break my hard heart,
Jesus my Lord;
In the inmost part
Hide Thy sweet word.
PERFECTION.
There is but one true good for a spiritual being, and this is found in its perfection. Men are slow to see this truth; and yet it is the key to God's providence, and to the mysteries of life.
Those who disbelieve in virtue because man has never been found perfect, might as reasonably deny the sun because it is not always noon.
It is a union with a Higher Good by love, that alone is endless perfection. The only sufficient object for man must be something that adds to and perfects his nature, to which he must be united in love; somewhat higher than himself, yea, the highest of all, the Father of spirits. That alone completes a spirit and blesses it,—to love Him, the spring of spirits.
That is the true perfection of man to find out his imperfections.
