Though there is no presumption in an endeavour after a clearer sense of our own state of acceptance with God, yet it may be a safer course for us to restrain our curiosity of looking into God's Book of life, and to look into our being within the confines of salvation, by the revelation we base of it from within. Let us look into the real and internal proofs of the new nature in our own souls, and into what we have of the mind of Christ. It will be more advisable for us to see into the crucifying of our own wills, the mortifying of the animal life, the dying to the world, and its vanities and seducing follies, and from perception of the divine life within us, to gather a sure pledge of immortal life and happiness. For let us be well assured that the essence of these is a perfect conformity of all the powers of our souls, with the will of God. There is no better way to gain and keep a well grounded assurance of the love of God than to overcome ourselves and our own wills. Yes, he who finds Christ, the Sun of Justice, risen in the horizon of His own soul, and health in His wings, chasing away the mists and darkness of self-will and wrong affections, has no need to pry into the secrets of Heaven, for he finds the salvation of God transacted in his own soul, a throne set up there, and Jesus thereon reigning. He finds the Kingdom of Heaven within him, the Holy Comforter being to him a sure earnest of the eternal inheritance, and a sealing unto the day of redemption.
- text taken from Daily Bread - Bring a Few Morning Meditations for the Use of Catholic Christians by Father Richard Waldo Sibthorp