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maxim[12][8] = "If the servant of God would fain walk with more security through so many snares scattered in every place, he should have our Blessed Lady as his mediatrix with her Son."; | maxim[12][8] = "If the servant of God would fain walk with more security through so many snares scattered in every place, he should have our Blessed Lady as his mediatrix with her Son."; | ||
maxim[12][9] = "The sick man may desire to get well, provided he seals his desire always with an “If it please God,†“If it is good for my soul;†for we can do many good things in health, which sickness hinders us from doing."; | maxim[12][9] = "The sick man may desire to get well, provided he seals his desire always with an “If it please God,†“If it is good for my soul;†for we can do many good things in health, which sickness hinders us from doing."; | ||
maxim[12][10] = "In sickness we ought to ask God to give us patience, because it often happens that when a man gets well, he not only does not do the good he proposed to do when he was sick, but | maxim[12][10] = "In sickness we ought to ask God to give us patience, because it often happens that when a man gets well, he not only does not do the good he proposed to do when he was sick, but multiplies his sins and his ingratitude."; | ||
maxim[12][11] = "The mole is a blind rat, which always stays in the ground; it eats earth, and hollows it out, but is never satisfied with it: so is the avaricious man or woman."; | maxim[12][11] = "The mole is a blind rat, which always stays in the ground; it eats earth, and hollows it out, but is never satisfied with it: so is the avaricious man or woman."; | ||
maxim[12][12] = "Penitents should never make vows without the advice of their spiritual fathers."; | maxim[12][12] = "Penitents should never make vows without the advice of their spiritual fathers."; | ||
