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The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". What do you see when you turn out the light I can´t tell you, but I know it´s mine Oh I get by with a little help from my friends Mmm I get high with a little help from my friends Oh I´m gonna try with a little help from my friends Do you need anybody I just need somebody to love Could it be anybody I want somebody to love Oh I get by with a. The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics".
These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. He who does God’s will and renounces his own is truly very learned.Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. He is truly wise who looks upon all earthly things as folly that he may gain Christ. He is truly great who is little in his own eyes and makes nothing of the highest honor. They became vain in their own conceits because they chose to be great rather than humble. How many there are who perish because of vain worldly knowledge and too little care for serving God. How quickly the glory of the world passes away! If only their lives had kept pace with their learning, then their study and reading would have been worth while. During life they seemed to be something now they are seldom remembered. Tell me, where now are all the masters and teachers whom you knew so well in life and who were famous for 7 their learning? Others have already taken their places and I know not whether they ever think of their predecessors. On the day of judgment, surely, we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done not how well we have spoken but how well we have lived. If men used as much care in uprooting vices and implanting virtues as they do in discussing problems, there would not be so much evil and scandal in the world, or such laxity in religious organizations. Many often err and accomplish little or nothing because they try to become learned rather than to live well. Not that learning is to be considered evil, or knowledge, which is good in itself and so ordained by God but a clean conscience and virtuous life ought always to be preferred. Humble knowledge of self is a surer path to God than the ardent pursuit of learning. Who is forced to struggle more than he who tries to master himself? This ought to be our purpose, then: to conquer self, to become stronger each day, to advance in virtue.Įvery perfection in this life has some imperfection mixed with it and no learning of ours is without some darkness. What, indeed, gives more trouble and affliction than uncontrolled desires of the heart?Ī good and devout man arranges in his mind the things he has to do, not according to the whims of evil inclination but according to the dictates of 6 right reason. And since he enjoys interior peace he seeks no selfish end in anything. The pure, simple, and steadfast spirit is not distracted by many labors, for he does them all for the honor of God. The more recollected a man is, and the more simple of heart he becomes, the easier he understands sublime things, for he receives the light of knowledge from above. Let the learned be still, let all creatures be silent before You You alone speak to me. I am often wearied by the many things I hear and read, but in You is all that I long for. O God, You Who are the truth, make me one with You in love everlasting. He to whom it becomes everything, who traces all things to it and who sees all things in it, may ease his heart and remain at peace with God. Without this Word no man understands or judges aright. For from this Word are all things and of Him all things speak-the Beginning Who also speaks to us.
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What, therefore, have we to do with questions of philosophy? He to whom the Eternal Word speaks is free from theorizing. What good is much discussion of involved and obscure matters when our ignorance of them will not be held against us on Judgment Day? Neglect of things which are profitable and necessary and 5 undue concern with those which are irrelevant and harmful, are great folly. Our opinions, our senses often deceive us and we discern very little. HAPPY is he to whom truth manifests itself, not in signs and words that fade, but as it actually is.