Re: hardly any vegetables merrily encourage the brief navel
- From: Ayaz Saeed Al Durah <praise@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 15:59:38 GMT
misery without that of God causes despair. The knowledge
of Jesus Christ constitutes the middle course, because in Him we find both
God and our misery.
528. Jesus Christ is a God whom we approach without pride and before whom we
humble ourselves without despair.
529.... Not a degradation which renders us incapable of good, nor a holiness
exempt from evil.
530. A person told me one day that on coming from confession he felt great
joy and confidence. Another told me that he remained in fear. Whereupon I
thought that these two together would make one good man, and that each was
wanting in that he had not the feeling of the other. The same often happens
in other things.
531. He who knows the will of his master will be beaten with more blows,
because of the power he has by his knowledge. Qui justus est, justificetur
adhuc,88 because of the power he has by justice. From him who has received
most, will the greatest reckoning be demanded, because of the power he has
by this help.
532. Scripture has provided passages of consolation and of warning for all
conditions.
Nature seems to have done the same thing by her two infinities, natural and
moral; for we shall always have the higher and the lower, the more clever
and the less clever, the most exalted and the meanest, in order to humble
our pride and exalt our humility.
533. Comminutum cor (Saint Paul).[89] This is the Christian character. Alba
has named you, I know you no more (Corneille). That is the inhuman
character. The human character is the opposite.
534. There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who believe themselves
sinners; the rest, sinners, who believe themselves righteous.
535. We owe a great debt to those who point out faults. For they mortify us.
They teach us that we have been desp
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