The thought occurred to me that if the Church does not provide religious gratifications for the true wants of humanity, she must be silent if men feed them profanely.

It is because the Church has not done her duty that there are so many secular societies for Reformation, Temperance, and so on.
The Church has provided for the salvation of the sinner's soul by means of spiritual acts, such as prayer, penance, the Eucharist and other sacraments.

But now she must provide terrestrial sacraments for the salvation and transfiguration of the body." "We should strive constantly to actualize the ideal we perceive.

When we do realize all the beauty and holiness that we see, we are not called to deny ourselves, for then we are living as fully on all sides as we have capacity to do.

Are we not in this state?
Then, if we are sincere, we will give up lower and unnecessary gratifications for the sake of the ideal we have in view.
"I would die to prove my immortality." "At times we are called to rely on Providence, to be imprudent and reckless according to the wisdom of the world.