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Faith, hope, and charity are the best weapons in the world to fight against intemperance.
Holy Living (1650)
He that is choice of his time will be choice of his company, and choice of his actions.
Holy Living (1650)
Upon the wings of fasting and alms holy prayer infallibly mounts up to heaven.
Holy Living (1650)
The Holy Ghost is certainly the best preacher in the world, and the words of Scripture the best sermons.
Holy Living (1650)
The strong must come lest they become weak; and the weak that they may become strong. The sick must come to be cured; the healthful to be preserved.
Holy Living (1650)
My children are not so much mine as they are God’s.
Holy Living (1650)
Love is as communicative as fire, as busy and as active...
Holy Living (1650)
Love is the greatest thing that God can give us; for himself is love; and it is the greatest thing we can give to God; for it will also give ourselves and carry with it all that is ours.
Holy Living (1650)
...if love hath filled all the corners of our soul, it alone is able to do all the work of God.
Holy Living (1650)
...since God has appointed one remedy for all the evils in the world and that is a contented spirit.
Holy Living (1650)
God is in the bowels of thy brother; refresh them, when he needs it, and then you give your alms in the presence of God, and to God; and He feels the relief which thou providest for thy brother.
Holy Living (1650)
...for there is some virtue or other to be exercised, whatever happens...
Holy Living (1650)
Let no man appropriate to his own use what God, by a special mercy, or the republic, hath made common; for that is both against justice and charity too; and by miraculous accidents, God hath declared his displeasure against such enclosure.
Holy Living (1650)
God gave necessities to man, that all men might need; and several abilities to several persons, that each man might help to supply the public needs, and, by joining to fill up all wants, they may be knit together by justice, as the parts of the world are by nature.
Holy Living (1650)
Because as the sun reflecting upon the wind of strands and shores is unpolluted in its beams, so is God not dishonored when we suppose him in every of his creatures, and in every part of every one of them.
Holy Living (1650)
This grace (purity of intention) is so excellent that it sanctifies the most common actions of our life and yet is so necessary that without it, the very best actions of our devotion are imperfect and vicious.
Holy Living (1650)
If any man be well grown in grace, he must needs come [to receive the Eucharist], because he is excellently disposed to so holy a feast: but he that is but in the infancy of piety had need to come, that so he may grow in grace. The strong must come lest they become weak; and the weak that they may become strong. The sick must come to be cured; the healthful to be preserved.
Holy Living (1650)
O let Thy mercy descend upon the whole church; preserve her in truth and peace, in unity and safety, in all storms, and against all temptations and enemies; that she, offering to Thy glory the never-ceasing sacrifice of prayer and thanksgiving, may advance the honour of her Lord, and be filled with His Spirit, and partake of His glory. Amen.
Holy Living (1650)
O holy and ever-blessed Spirit, Who didst overshadow the holy Virgin, the mother of our Lord, and caused her to conceive by a miraculous and mysterious manner, be pleased to overshadow my soul, and enlighten my spirit, that I may conceive the holy Jesus in my heart, and may bear Him in my mind, and may grow up to the fulness of the stature of Christ, to be a perfect man in Christ Jesus. Amen.
Holy Living (1650)
Remember that zeal, being an excrescence of divine love, must in no sense contradict any action of love. Love to God includes love to our neighbour; and therefore no pretence of zeal for God’s glory must make us uncharitable to our brother; for that is just so pleasing to God as hatred is an act of love.
Holy Living (1650)