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maxim[6][13] = "The servant of God ought to seek knowledge, but never to show it or make a parade of it."; | maxim[6][13] = "The servant of God ought to seek knowledge, but never to show it or make a parade of it."; | ||
maxim[6][14] = "Let us always go to confession with sincerity, and take this as our rule - Never out of human respect to conceal anything from our confessor, however inconsiderable it may be."; | maxim[6][14] = "Let us always go to confession with sincerity, and take this as our rule - Never out of human respect to conceal anything from our confessor, however inconsiderable it may be."; | ||
maxim[6][15] = "He who conceals a grave sin in confession | maxim[6][15] = "He who conceals a grave sin in confession is completely in the devil’s hands."; | ||
maxim[6][16] = "Penitents should not generally change their confessors, nor confessors be forward to receive the penitents of others, a few particular cases excepted."; | maxim[6][16] = "Penitents should not generally change their confessors, nor confessors be forward to receive the penitents of others, a few particular cases excepted."; | ||
maxim[6][17] = "When a person who has been living a spiritual life for a long time falls into a serious fault, there is no better way of raising him up again than by exhorting him to manifest his fall to any pious friend with whom he has a particular intimacy: and God will reconduct him to his first estate for the sake of his humility."; | maxim[6][17] = "When a person who has been living a spiritual life for a long time falls into a serious fault, there is no better way of raising him up again than by exhorting him to manifest his fall to any pious friend with whom he has a particular intimacy: and God will reconduct him to his first estate for the sake of his humility."; | ||
