I think we may say with very great certainty that this is the only way to obtain happiness in this world and eternal felicity in the world to come.

It is to this God calls us, but we--no, not truly we, but the Man of Sin--flatter ourselves, as he did Eve, that if we follow him we shall not die but become as gods.

We, to-day, have the same temptation to overcome that Eve had.
"Oh, how much greater God would have us be than we are, and we will not! We must cast out the Man of Sin and submit to the Paradisiacal Man.

This we are enabled to do, blessed be Heaven, by the grace of God through Jesus Christ.
"What are the temptations which hold men back from following God and leading a divine life?
In one word, the World.

Pride, love of praise, riches, self-indulgence, all that refers and looks to time instead of eternity, heaven, God.
"We should encourage all that gives us an impulse heavenward, and deny all that tends to draw us down more into the body, sense, time.
Man, alas! is weak, powerless, and unable to perform any good deed which will raise him to God without the free gift, the blessed grace of God the Holy Spirit.