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maxim[12][16] = "A person must be ready to endure, when through a virtuous motive he is mortified by others, and even when God permits him to be in such bad odor with others that he is regarded and driven away as an infected sheep."; | maxim[12][16] = "A person must be ready to endure, when through a virtuous motive he is mortified by others, and even when God permits him to be in such bad odor with others that he is regarded and driven away as an infected sheep."; | ||
maxim[12][17] = "Our enemy the devil, who fights with us in order to vanquish us, seeks to disunite us in our houses, and to breed quarrels, dislikes, contests, and rivalries, because while we are fighting with each other, he comes and conquers us, and makes us more securely his own."; | maxim[12][17] = "Our enemy the devil, who fights with us in order to vanquish us, seeks to disunite us in our houses, and to breed quarrels, dislikes, contests, and rivalries, because while we are fighting with each other, he comes and conquers us, and makes us more securely his own."; | ||
maxim[12][18] = "He who does not think on the benefits he receives from God in this life, and on those greater ones his mercy has prepared in that other life of bliss, does not nourish love | maxim[12][18] = "He who does not think on the benefits he receives from God in this life, and on those greater ones his mercy has prepared in that other life of bliss, does not nourish love for God, but chills and freezes it."; | ||
maxim[12][19] = "If a soul could altogether abstain from venial sins, the greatest pain it could have would be to be detained in this life, so great would its desire be of union with God."; | maxim[12][19] = "If a soul could altogether abstain from venial sins, the greatest pain it could have would be to be detained in this life, so great would its desire be of union with God."; | ||
maxim[12][20] = "In the persecutions which bad men excite against piety and devotion, we must keep our eyes on God, whom we serve, and on the testimony of a good conscience."; | maxim[12][20] = "In the persecutions which bad men excite against piety and devotion, we must keep our eyes on God, whom we serve, and on the testimony of a good conscience."; | ||
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