The Greatest Saint In The World Is

If You Attempt To Talk With A Dying Man About Sports Or Business, He Is No Longer Interested. He Now Sees Other Things As More Important. People Who Are Dying Recognize What We Often Forget, That We Are Standing On The Brink Of Another World.

What Can You Conceive More Silly And Extravagant Than To Suppose A Man Racking His Brains, And Studying Night And Day How To Fly?

Receive Every Day As A Resurrection From Death, As A New Enjoyment Of Life; Meet Every Rising Sun With Such Sentiments Of God's Goodness, As If You Had Seen It, And All Things, New-created Upon Your Account: And Under The Sense Of So Great A Blessing, Let Your Joyful Heart Praise And Magnify So Good And Glorious A Creator.

If Our Life Is Not A Course Of Humility, Self-denial, Renunciation Of The World, Poverty Of Spirit, And Heavenly Affection, We Do Not Live The Lives Of Christians.

Now If You Will Stop Here And Ask Yourself Why You Are Not As Pious As The Primitive Christians Were, Your Own Heart Will Tell You That It Is Neither Through Ignorance Nor Inability, But Purely Because You Never Thoroughly Intended It.