Category: Detatchment
The virtue of poverty consists in living with our heart in God, and therefore detached from material things.
Christian materialism, instead of making us despise consumer goods, should move us to take good care of the material wealth that we possess.
If God is our God, and if God is our All, there should be no limit to our confidence and hope in Him. Yet, as a matter of experience, one sees that it is often through want of confidence that men turn away from the pursuit of perfection.