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maxim[8][1] = "Because St. Peter and the other apostles and apostolical men saw that the Son of God was born in poverty, because He lived so absolutely without anything that He had nowhere to lay His Head, and because they contemplated Him dead and naked on a cross, they also stripped themselves of all things and took the road of the evangelical counsels."; | maxim[8][1] = "Because St. Peter and the other apostles and apostolical men saw that the Son of God was born in poverty, because He lived so absolutely without anything that He had nowhere to lay His Head, and because they contemplated Him dead and naked on a cross, they also stripped themselves of all things and took the road of the evangelical counsels."; | ||
maxim[8][2] = "Nothing unites the soul to God more closely, or breeds contempt of the world sooner, than being harassed and distressed."; | maxim[8][2] = "Nothing unites the soul to God more closely, or breeds contempt of the world sooner, than being harassed and distressed."; | ||
maxim[8][3] = "In this life there is no purgatory; it is either hell or paradise; for to him who serves God truly, every trouble and infirmity turns into consolations, and through all kinds of trouble he has a paradise within himself even in this world | maxim[8][3] = "In this life there is no purgatory; it is either hell or paradise; for to him who serves God truly, every trouble and infirmity turns into consolations, and through all kinds of trouble he has a paradise within himself even in this world; and he who does not serve God truly, and gives himself up to sensuality, has one hell in this world and another in the next."; | ||
maxim[8][4] = "To get good from reading the Lives of the Saints, and other spiritual books, we ought not to read out of curiosity, or skimmingly, but with pauses; and when we feel ourselves warmed, we ought not to pass on, but to stop and follow up the spirit which is stirring in us, and when we feel it no longer then to pursue our reading."; | maxim[8][4] = "To get good from reading the Lives of the Saints, and other spiritual books, we ought not to read out of curiosity, or skimmingly, but with pauses; and when we feel ourselves warmed, we ought not to pass on, but to stop and follow up the spirit which is stirring in us, and when we feel it no longer then to pursue our reading."; | ||
maxim[8][5] = "To begin and end well, devotion to our Blessed Lady, the Mother of God, is nothing less than indispensable."; | maxim[8][5] = "To begin and end well, devotion to our Blessed Lady, the Mother of God, is nothing less than indispensable."; | ||
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