The Constituents of Human Actions

 

Apply your reason to the truths that God has made known to you, and let its judgments be your guide. Never surrender yourself to the reckless impulses of bodily appetite or blind passion. Keep your guiding faculty clear from the mists of self-will, prejudice and ignorance, and ask the Lord to send forth upon it the rays of His light and His truth.

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Human Acts in General

 

What a multitude of duties you have to do in the vineyard which God has committed to your care for these few years! You cannot accomplish them successfully without deep consideration and constant prayer.

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The Attainment of Beatitude

At length the end will come, and then after such purgation as is necessary, we shall enter into the joy of the Lord. We shall not have to await the Resurrection and the Last Judgment, but within a short time, a time of months or days even, we shall have reached the goal of our existence. Nothing is more certain than this granting your persevering fidelity. Let this thought be your comfort. Be contented with all that happens. Do not murmur at untoward events. Wait for the salvation of God. 

 

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The Qualities of Beatitude

Human faculties will never wear out, or lose their vigor, or desire a change; the love and enjoyment of God will advance for ever with an energy that will never die. How miserable is all that the world can give compared with this! How small are the attainments of our natural abilities, how disappointing when grasped, how brief their tenure, how bitter the loss of them! What folly to devote a lifetime to the pursuit of such objects, and to neglect the supernatural which alone endures!

 

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The Beatific Love

As soon as the just are admitted to the sight of God, they will become conscious of the infinite affection He bears to them, and they will be drawn to Him with the cravings of an all-absorbing affection. They will realize that He is indeed their life, a necessary of existence, for which every fiber of their being hungers and craves.

The kingdom of God on earth, as being the forerunner of heaven, must also be a kingdom of love embracing all from first to last. Strive to made it such.

 

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The Beatific Vision

At present we cannot picture to ourselves more than the treasures of natural knowledge, and we aspire to these accordingly. This knowledge doubtless we shall possess in all its fulness; and, extensive though it is, it will be the mere beginning of a further knowledge that will absorb into itself and transcend all the science which now we value so highly. The supernatural knowledge which religion communicates to us now, and which we hold by the evidence of faith and not by the evidence of sense, is the foregleam of the knowledge which we shall see in the Beatific Vision. This knowledge alone will never become void when all else shall lose its interest for us; and by God's mercy this highest science is accessible to the simplest souls. Value it as better than all the natural attainments of the intellect.

 

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