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id: 33701
author: Valuy, Benôit
title: Fraternal Charity
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  With great charity and affability they bear with the faults and shortcomings of others, careful to fulfil the law of Christ, which tells us to bear one another's burdens. With the exception of extraordinary cases, or when it refers to a bad habit or something otherwise irremediable, there is generally little charity and less prudence in telling the Superior-General of something blameable which has occurred.


id: 13267
author: Ainsworth, Percy C. (Percy Clough)
title: The Threshold Grace: Meditations in the Psalms
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flesch: 86
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  That is a picture of life. Life is spent in crossing this threshold-line, going out to the many and coming in to the few, going out to answer the call of labour and coming in to take the right to rest.


id: 10740
author: Allen, James
title: The Way of Peace
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sentence: 589
flesch: 63
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summary:
  Self is ingenious, crooked, and, governed by subtle and snaky desire, admits of endless turnings and qualifications, and the deluded worshipers of self vainly imagine that they can gratify every worldly desire, and at the same time possess the Truth. And this Love, this Wisdom, this Peace, this tranquil state of mind and heart may be attained to, may be realized by all who are willing and ready to yield up self, and who are prepared to humbly enter into a comprehension of all that the giving up of self involves.


id: 33349
author: Evans, William
title: The Shepherd Psalm: A Meditation
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flesch: 84
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summary:
  Lord signifies also God in Christ, the Jehovah of the Old Testament, God of power, the One who is able to do all things and with whom nothing is impossible, manifesting Himself in Jesus Christ. Really speaking, your religion consists in your personal relationship to God in Jesus Christ.


id: 21024
author: Guthrie, Thomas
title: The Angels' Song
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summary:
  The person is God--He who spake by holy men of old, speaking here by the lips of angels. And now--ere they left Him to tread the wine-press alone, and returned on upward wings to their native heavens, and their service before the throne of God--these celestials bent their loving eyes on the stable; and in anticipation of Jesus' triumphs, of men saved, death conquered, graves spoiled, and Satan crushed, they sang Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.


id: 27852
author: Sylvain, Adrien
title: Gold Dust: A Collection of Golden Counsels for the Sanctification of Daily Life
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sentence: 1448
flesch: 81
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  What is done by these poor people and little children for the gold dust GOD has sown in those obscure rivers, we would do with those counsels and teachings which GOD has sown almost everywhere, which sparkle, enlighten, and inspire for a moment, then disappear, leaving but regret that the thought did not occur to collect and treasure them. A young girl, in one of those moments when the heart seems to overflow with devotion, wrote thus in her journal: If I dared, I would ask GOD why I am placed in the world; what have I to do?


id: 37292
title: Thoughts for the Quiet Hour
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flesch: 90
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  This, my soul, is the triumph of thy being--to be able to _walk_ with God! 4._ There is a path in which every child of God is to walk, and in which alone God can accompany him.--_Denham Smith._ =January 22nd.= _


id: 38965
author: St. Paul, Mother
title: Mater Christi: Meditations on Our Lady
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flesch: 85
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summary:
  One day, if we try to receive our cup of sorrow as Mary did, that is, take it _for_ JESUS and _with_ JESUS, we too shall receive the cup of joy, and we shall be able to say with St Paul as we put the two side by side: The sufferings are not worthy to be compared with the glory. He knew her well, and he expressed his knowledge in the first _Hail Mary_ that was ever said.


id: 29557
author: Gaebelein, Arno Clemens
title: The Lord of Glory Meditations on the person, the work and glory of our Lord Jesus Christ
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sentence: 2632
flesch: 86
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  God speaks in Him, by Him, and he who has made known God, in whom redemption for man was procured is dishonored. For this reason it is impossible to deny the authority of the Old Testament without denying the authority of Lord Jesus Christ.


id: 39223
author: St. Paul, Mother
title: Ortus Christi: Meditations for Advent
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flesch: 86
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summary:
  Who didst please that Thy Word should take flesh, at the message of an Angel, in the womb of the Blessed Virgin Mary; grant to Thy suppliants that we who believe her to be truly the Mother of God, may be helped by her intercession. Almighty, everlasting God, Who by the co-operation of the Holy Ghost didst prepare the body and soul of the glorious Virgin Mother Mary to become a habitation meet for Thy Son; grant that as we rejoice in her commemoration, we may, by her loving intercession, be delivered from present evils and from everlasting death.


id: 29971
author: Jennings, Frederick Charles
title: Old Groans and New Songs Being Meditations on the Book of Ecclesiastes
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sentence: 2065
flesch: 77
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  And this is proof of the depravity of the times!--not proof, mark, of just that very thing that is the heart and soul of the book: the weary, unsatisfied, empty heart of poor man looking backward or forward for the satisfaction that the present always fails to give under the sun, and which he, who was wiser than all who came before him, Solomon, warns his readers _against_! in this book in which poor man at his highest is allowed to give voice to his deepest questions, in which all the chaos, and darkness, the without form and void state of his poor, distracted, disjointed being is seen; death is indeed the King of Terrors, upsetting all his reasonings, and bringing the wisdom and folly, between which he had so carefully discriminated, to one level in a moment.


id: 60377
author: Thomas, à Kempis
title: The Following of Christ, in Four Books Translated from the Original Latin of Thomas a Kempis
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flesch: 82
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  Some are preserved from great temptations, and are often overcome in daily little ones: that being humbled, they may never presume of themselves in great things, who are weak in such small occurrences. We blame little things in others, and pass over great things in ourselves.


id: 39648
title: Character and Conduct A Book of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages
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sentence: 3584
flesch: 76
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  Contemptuousness JUNE 30 Our Lord not only _told_ men that they were the children of God, that they should strive after their Father's likeness, and that they might approach nearer and nearer to being perfect as He is perfect: but, what was more than this, in every word He spake,--whether of teaching, or reproof, or expostulation, or in His passing words to those who received His mercies,--He _treated_ them as God's children. And, further, if we are going on from the mere admiration of great men to try and live like them, we are obeying one of the happiest impulses of our being.


id: 14849
author: Steinmetz, Margaret Bird
title: Leaves of Life, for Daily Inspiration
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flesch: 89
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  Alexander the Great born B. C. 356. For all sweet and pleasant passages in the great story of life men may well thank God; for leisure and ease and health and friendship may God make us truly and humbly grateful; but our chief song of thanksgiving must be always for our kinship with him, with all that such divinity of greatness brings of peril, hardship, toil, and sacrifice.


id: 23772
author: Donne, John
title: Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions; Together with Death's Duel
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flesch: 72
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  Let not one bring learning, another diligence, another religion, but every one bring all; and as many ingredients enter into a receipt, so may many men make the receipt. But let me stop, my God, and consider; will not this look like a piece of art and cunning, to convey into the world an opinion that I were more particular in his care than other men?


id: 12624
author: Barry, J. G. H. (Joseph Gayle Hurd)
title: Our Lady Saint Mary
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flesch: 69
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summary:
  But the life that is lived as sacrifice, as a thing perfectly offered to God, is a life growing up in God day by day. Lord God all-powerful!


