This book reflects, the wisdom of a lifetime of labor spent in the vineyard of the Lord, wisdom stated in a profound yet simple and direct way that  the reader will find nowhere else but in the writing of the curé d'ars. For here we find many of the many of the curé's memorable and epigrammatic saying, so expressive , such as " Iknow two very certain ways of becoming poor: they are working on sunday and talking over"