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Spiritual Maxims. 447
19. Do not defer carrying out your good resolutions
you do not wish to retrograde.
20. To trouble one s self about faults committed is
not humility, but pride.
21. We are only that which we are before God.
22. He that loves God desires to love rather than to
know.
23. He that wishes to sanctify himself should banish
from his heart all that which is not God.
24. One is not entirely for God when one seeks some
thing that is not God.
25. Pain, poverty, and humiliation were the com
panions of Jesus Christ; may they also be ours.
26. Mental agitation, whatever may have been the
cause, does not come from God.
27. The humble man believes himself unworthy
honor, and worthy of contempt.
of all
28. When one thinks of hell, which one has deserved,
one suffers with resignation every pain.
29. Forget yourself, and God will think of you.
30. Love contempt, and you will find God.
31. He that contents himself with that which is less
good is not far from evil.
32. God esteems but little him who seeks to be es
teemed.
33. The saints always speak of God; they always
speak ill of themselves, and always well of others.
34. The curious are always distracted.
35. Woe to him that loves health more than sanctity.
36. The devil is
always in pursuit of the idle.
37. A vain priest is but the sport in the hand of the
devil.
38. He that wishes to live in peace ought to mortify
all his passions without excepting any one of them.
39. St. Joseph Calasanctius used to say: The servant
of God speaks little, works much, bears all."
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