A Garden Enclosed Quotes

“The relation between chastening and chastity is obvious. "The affections, being God's gifts, are not to be crushed; nevertheless, they must be purified and regulated." They must be purified from selfishness, and probably none know until they take themselves seriously in hand, how few drops of pure affection they can distill from a great accumulation of self-pleasing.”
― Sister Frances Anna C.S.M., A Garden Enclosed: Practical Studies in Religious Life

“Working men and women, in the din of shops or the clamor of tenement homes, have scant time to pray, but they know and claim their share in the prayers of those who are set apart to pray seven times a day. If all cannot do it, surely it is well that some can.”
― Sister Frances Anna C.S.M., A Garden Enclosed: Practical Studies in Religious Life