Chapter 20

Frequent the Temple of God

If you find it convenient, go to the temple of God frequently. Nowhere does the prayerful spirit open as it does in churches, through attentive and reverent presence in them. If you do this, you will soon see fruit, though not after the first or second visit to church. You must devote months and show constancy and patience in this labor.

But I add this also—do not bind yourself. Yet if you bind yourself to something, hold fast to it: for by this condition the fruitfulness of such a sowing is secured.

(Letter 191. Vol. 1, p. 234)