Christ intends no man ever to carry the cross alone.

Do you want to journey by the shortest road, the straight and safe way to eternal bliss, unto your true country, to grace and glory?

Mental Prayer is an ascent or approach of the mind to God. 

In last analysis then, Mental Prayer is the act of the soul seeking the society of Our Divine Lord, with a view to receiving His direction and coming under the control of His Sacred Humanity.

When the soul moved by grace resolves to place itself entirely under the direction of Jesus in view of its spiritual advancement, it is, ordinarily speaking, full of imperfections.

Without prayer salvation is impossible.

All our dealings with God must have a background of pleading in them; a note of entreaty must run through the varied movements of the soul towards its God.

When we hear speak of the wicked, we are apt to think that men of abandoned lives and unprincipled conduct, cruel, crafty, or profligate men, can alone be meant. . . .that evil, in any sufficient sense of the word, is something external to us, and at a distance.

The name Jesus is endowed with immense power!

The spiritual life may be correctly described as the "cultivation of intimacy with God" and the following pages are an attempt to show how the soul may cultivate that intimacy and how it is to overcome the obstacles it encounters in its efforts to become intimate with its Creator.