I would have no desire other than to accomplish thy will. Teach me to pray; pray thyself in me.
Worry is the cross which we make for ourselves by overanxiety.
Time spent in prayer is never wasted.
Even if no command to pray had existed, our very weakness would have suggested it.
Mankind, by the perverse depravity of their nature, esteem that which they have most desired as of no value the moment it is possessed, and torment themselves with fruitless wishes for that which is beyond their reach.
Courage is a virtue only so far as it is directed by prudence.