The Lord bestows His blessing there where He finds the vessels empty: and the more perfectly one forsakes these things below, and the more he dies to himself by the contempt of himself, the more speedily grace cometh, entereth in more plentifully, and the higher it elevateth the free heart.
-Bk. IV, ch. xv.
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"Oh! how much I have still to acquire!"
"Say rather to lose God will fill your heart in the measure that you empty it of imperfections. I can see that you have missed your way, and will never reach your goal. You think only of scaling heights, whilst Our Lord wants you to go down: He is waiting for you in the fertile valley of humility."
-Conseils et Souvenirs.
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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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