Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.
Pray in your family daily, that yours may be in the number of the families who call upon God.
You may feel overwhelmed by your own poverty and the labors of the day. But if you decide not to wait until you have more strength and more money, and if you pray for the Holy Spirit as you go, you will, when you arrive, know what to do and how to help someone even poorer than you are.
I pray God may preserve your health and life many years.
You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.
Infinitely more important than sharing one's material wealth is sharing the wealth of ourselves - our time and energy, our passion and commitment, and, above all, our love.
Pour not on the comforts you want, but upon the mercies you have. Look rather at God's ending in afflicting, than to the measure and degree of your affliction.
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.