If thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments (Matt. xix, 17). If thou wilt know the truth, believe Me: if thou wilt be perfect, sell all: if thou wilt be My disciple, deny thyself: if thou wilt possess a blessed life, despise this present life.
-Bk. III, ch. lvi.
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O Poverty! thy faithful hands
Have stripped me for the race,
The snare is broken that did hold
Me fast, but for thy grace.
Let others cling to joys that bring
But weariness and pain;
I run my course, unfettered, free,
Eternal joy to gain.
-Poems.
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Adapted from Just For Today(©1943 Burns & Oates)
Nihil Obstat: Reginaldus Phillips, S.T.L.,Censor deputatus
Imprimatur: Edwardus Myers, Vic. Cap.
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