Want of will causes paralysis of every faculty. In spiritual things man is utterly unable because resolvedly unwilling.
The true servants of God are not solicitous that He should order them to do what they desire to do, but that they may desire to do what He orders them to do.
My will, not Thine be done, turned Paradise into a desert. "Thy will, not mine be done," turned the desert into Paradise, and made Gethsemane the gate of heaven.
WISDOM.
Be wise to-day; 'tis madness to defer.
What is it to be wise?
'Tis but to know how little can be known,
To see all other's faults, and feel our own.
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
For knowledge to become wisdom, and for the soul to grow, the soul must be rooted in God: and it is through prayer that there comes to us that which is the strength of our strength, and the virtue of our virtue, the Holy Spirit.
