How unworthy are vanity and pride and selfishness.

In what garments of beauty and attraction are truth and purity clothed.

The soul looks longingly unto the heavenly heights, as desert pilgrims long for oases and springs of water.

Unspeakably precious are these strategic hours of opportunity.

God sends them; divineness is in them; they cleanse and fertilize the soul; they are like the overflowing Nile.