Quotes

"Our constant efforts to lower our estimate of the present world should not lead us to hate life, or to be ungrateful towards God. For this life, though it is full of countless miseries, deserves to be reckoned among the divine blessings which should not be despised. Therefore, if we discover nothing of God's goodness in it, we are already guilty of no small ingratitude toward him....Since this life, then, serves to teach us the divine kindness, should we dare to scorn it as if there were no particle of good in it?...For, if Scriptural evidences were wanting, which are very numerous and clear, even nature itself urges us to give thanks to the Lord for having given us the light of life, and its many usages, and the means necessary to preserve it."