The world promises things temporal and of small value, and is served with great eagerness; I promise things most excellent and everlasting, and men's hearts are not moved! Be thou ashamed, O Sidon, saith the sea.
Alas! for an unchangeable good, for an inestimable reward, for the highest honours and never-ending glory, they are unwilling to take the least pains. Be ashamed, then, thou slothful servant!
-Bk. III, ch. iii.
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A week after I received the veil, our cousin Jeanne Guerin was married to Dr. La Neele. When she next came to the parlour and spoke of the affectionate consideration she showed her husband, my heart was moved, and I thought: It shall not be said that a woman of the world does more for her husband, a mere mortal, than I do for my beloved Lord!
I was filled with fresh fervour, and tried more than ever in all I did to please my heavenly Bridegroom, the King of kings, who has deigned to make me His bride.
-The Story of a Soul (L'Histoire d'une Âme).
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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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