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maxim[1][18] = "Before a man chooses his confessor, he ought to think well about it and also pray about it; but when he has once chosen, he ought not to change, except for most urgent reasons, but put the utmost confidence in his director."; | maxim[1][18] = "Before a man chooses his confessor, he ought to think well about it and also pray about it; but when he has once chosen, he ought not to change, except for most urgent reasons, but put the utmost confidence in his director."; | ||
maxim[1][19] = "When the devil has failed in making a man fall, he puts forward all his energies to create distrust between the penitent and the confessor, and so by little and little he gains his end at last."; | maxim[1][19] = "When the devil has failed in making a man fall, he puts forward all his energies to create distrust between the penitent and the confessor, and so by little and little he gains his end at last."; | ||
maxim[1][20] = "Let persons in the world sanctify themselves in their own houses, for | maxim[1][20] = "Let persons in the world sanctify themselves in their own houses, for what is done in the court, the professions, or labor is no hindrance to the service of God."; | ||
maxim[1][21] = "Obedience is the true holocaust which we sacrifice to God on the altar of our hearts."; | maxim[1][21] = "Obedience is the true holocaust which we sacrifice to God on the altar of our hearts."; | ||
maxim[1][22] = "In order to be really obedient, it is not enough to do what obedience commands, we must do it without reasoning upon it."; | maxim[1][22] = "In order to be really obedient, it is not enough to do what obedience commands, we must do it without reasoning upon it."; | ||
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