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Humility. 321
destination. And 1 St. James has wrftten, that God resisteth
the proud, and giveth grace to the humble? From the
proud God withholds his graces, but to the humble he
opens his hand and dispenses his favors. Be humble,
says Ecclesiasticus, and expect from the hands of God
as many graces as you desire. Humble thyself to God,
and wait for His hands? And our Saviour has said:
Amen, amen, I say to you, unless the grain of wheat falling
into the ground die, itself remaineth alone. But if it die, it
bringeth forth much fridt? A priest who dies to selflove
shall produce great fruit; but -he who dies not to
himself, and resents insults or trusts in his own talents,
remaineth alone : he remains alone, and will produce no
fruit for himself or others.
1 "
Reproborum signum superbia est; at contra, humilitas electorum."
Mor. 1.
34, c. 22.
2 "
Deus superbis resistit; humilibus autem dat gratiam." -James,
iv. 6.
3 "
Humiliate Deo, exspecta manus ejus."
Ecclus. xiii. 9.
4 "Amen, amen, dico vobis: nisi granum frumenti cadens in
terram, mortuum fuerit, ipsurh solum manet; si autem mortuum
fuerit, multum fructum affert."
John, xii. 24.
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