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… When the Devil in acts seems as your friend, be more than wary. For by every act, by every falsehood, he seeks to deceive and deceive, and further and further, his own evil. For in outcome he only seeks to taketh, and taketh, and taketh again, and all for himself. And in no part…
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… With what yoke, with what chains, with what servitude, is it that God commands upon you? If you would but look closely, then closer still, and closer again, you will find that in answer, in truth, there will be as none. For the only binds that you bear, that you carry, that you convey,…
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… That you own her? That God belongs to you, and to you alone? … That would be as like laying claim to the very clouds in the sky, Indeed, that would be as to preen above all and proclaim that you command the breeze itself, Verily, and further then boast that you are also…
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… Go with grace, on all roads, on all paths ; straight, true, diverse, or arduous. Go with grace, and you may know her still. • *Oculi omnium in te aspiciunt et in te sperant, Deus. Tu das illis escam tempore opportuno. Aperis tu manus, et imples omne animal benedictione tua. Benedic nobis, Domine, et…
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… Give unto her in prayer, in thought, in word, in deed Give unto her in need, in praise, in thanks, unto her, unto others, unto all Give unto her Give
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… Ask of her in prayer, in thought, in word, in deed Ask of her in need, in praise, in thanks, for you, for others, for all Ask of her Ask
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… In swirling winds she dances, by and by, through most of her days, A beauty, unmatched, in suitors the same,the sparrow, the hawk, the vole, now, even the rain She’s mine!, All mine!, She’s mine!, they each proclaim, be off now, begone, all her, all she, all golden, e’en thicket and pain But hold…
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… Just as the bee without the flower would be as gormless gnat. Just as the painter without beauty would be joyless, a husk. Just as beauty without the painter would be as withered of heart. Just as all without God would be as a wilderness, lost. Just as God without all would be as…
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… For lest you know it not, and one day you should awake from out of that darkest of slumbers, and be astonished, and be warmed by the light of her love, as you hear her say unto you: But did you not know of it? Did you not know of it already? That I…
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… If that be what you seek, what you hold in value, what you hold most precious. If that be your currency, your coin, your bargain. Tell me, what power, what glory, what might, what strength, what wonder, is like unto hers? Unto God? Think on that. Think on that, and you may yet come…