There is nothing more unreasonable than to estimate our worth by the opinion of others. Today they laud us to the skies, to-morrow they will cover us with ignominy.--VEN. LOUIS OF GRANADA. 4 Act as if every day were the last of your life, and each action the last you perform.--ST. ALPHONSUS. 5 Perfection consists in renouncing ourselves, in carrying our cross, and in following Jesus Christ. Now, he who renounces himself most perfectly carries his cross the best and follows nearest to Jesus Christ is he who never does his own will, but always that of God.--ST. VINCENT DE PAUL. 6 That which would have easily been remedied at first, becomes incurable by time and habit--ST. IGNATIUS. 7 Among the gifts of grace which the soul receives in holy communion there is one that must be numbered among the highest. It is, that holy communion does not permit the soul to remain long in sin, nor to obstinately persevere in it.--ST. IGNATIUS. 8 Be assured that one great means to find favor when we appear before God is to have pardoned the injuries we have received here below.--VEN. LOUIS OF GRANADA. 9 Woe to him who neglects to recommend himself to Mary, and thus closes the channel of grace!--ST. ALPHONSUS. 10 It is folly to leave your goods where you can never return, and to send nothing to that place where you must remain for ever.--VEN. LOUIS OF GRANADA. 11 Discretion is necessary in spiritual life. It is its part to restrain the exercises in the way of perfection, so as to keep us between the two extremes.--ST. IGNATIUS. 12 By denying our self-love and our inclinations in little things, we gradually acquire mortification and victory over ourselves.--ST. TERESA. 13 Should we fall a thousand times in a day, a thousand times we must rise again, always animated with unbounded confidence in the infinite goodness of God.--VEN. LOUIS OF GRANADA. 14 God's way in dealing with those whom He intends to admit soonest after this life into the possession of His everlasting glory, is to purify them in this world by the greatest afflictions and trials.--ST. IGNATIUS. 15 After the flower comes the fruit: we receive, as the reward of our fatigues, an increase of grace in this world, and in the next the eternal vision of God.--BL. HENRY SUSO. 16 God refuses no one the gift of prayer. By it we obtain the help that we need to overcome disorderly desires and temptations of all kinds.--ST. ALPHONSUS. 17 To establish ourselves in a virtue it is necessary to form good and practical resolutions to perform certain and determined acts of that virtue, and we must, moreover, be faithful in executing them.--ST. VINCENT DE PAUL. 18 Love ought to consist of deeds more than of words.--ST. IGNATIUS. 19 There are many things which seem to us misfortunes and which we call such; but if we understood the designs of God we would call them graces.--ST. ALPHONSUS. 20 Let us abandon everything to the merciful providence of God.--BL. ALBERT THE GREAT. 21