This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God.
Perfection does not consist in any singular state or condition of life, or in any particular set of duties, but in holy and religious conduct of ourselves in every state of Life.
God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.
What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?
Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and transitory.
Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares.
