Paths in the world that lead to salvation

Many are the paths in the world that lead to salvation. Of these two are more direct, though none is effective unless pursued with single-minded devotion. The first is that of bearing with the forces of circumstance by self-naughting and the second is the incessant and undivided aspiration to God for His presence, day and night, in all conditions of life, by the contemplation, as when enamoured, of one of the following modes of divine sportiveness-—God the Lord, God the Friend, God the Son, God the Lover. Pray for the grace of God by seeking pardon of heavenly spirits, and all created beings, human and animal. These are the two paths of deliverance from birth and death on to holy communion with God.