Untitled - Saints' Books

446 Appendix.
Spiritual lilajdms for priests.
1. To lose all rather than to lose God.
2. To displease every one rather than to displease
God.
3. It is
only sin that we have to fear, and that should
grieve us.
4. To die rather than knowingly to commit a sin,
even if it were only a venial sin.
5.
All things come to an end; the world is a scene
that passes very quickly.
6.
Every moment is a treasure for eternity.
7. Everything that pleases God is
good.
8. Do what you would wish to have done at the hour
of death.
9.
Live as if there were no other beings in the world
except God and yourself.
10. God alone makes man contented.
IT. There is no other good than God; there is no
other evil than sin.
12. Never do anything for your own gratification.
13. The more one mortifies one s self in this life, the
more joy one shall have in the next.
14. To the friends of God the bitter is sweet, and the
sweet bitter.
15.
He that wishes what God wishes has all that he
wishes.
16. The will of God renders sweet all that which is
bitter.
17. In sickness one may see who has real virtue.
18. Whoever desires nothing of this world has no
need of anything.