The proud man hath no God; the envious man hath no neighbor; the angry man hath not himself.
There was a man here last night—you needn't be afraid that I shall mention his name—who said that his will was given up to God, and who got mad because the omnibus was full, and he had to walk a mile to his lodgings.
When I had twice or thrice made a resolute resistance to anger, the like befell me that did the Thebans; who, having once foiled the Lacedemonians, never after lost so much as one battle which they fought against them.
The sun should not set upon our anger, neither should he rise upon our confidence.
APOSTASY.
The kiss of the apostate was the most bitter earthly ingredient in the agonies which Christ endured.
Still in the garden shadows art Thou pleading,
Staining the night dews with Thine agony;
But one is there Thy woe and prayer unheeding,
And to their guileless prey Thy murderers leading,
Lord, is it I?
O God, the Father, of heaven, have mercy upon us miserable sinners.
