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| Chapter X. That abstinence from food is not of itself sufficient for preservation of bodily and mental purity.
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Chapter X.
That abstinence from food is not of itself sufficient
for preservation of bodily and mental purity.
In order to preserve the
mind and body in a perfect condition abstinence from food is not alone
sufficient: unless the other virtues of the mind as well are joined to
it. And so humility must first be learned by the virtue of obedience,
and grinding toil833
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contritione (Petschenig): cordis contritione
(Gazæus). | and bodily
exhaustion. The possession of money must not only be avoided, but the
desire for it must be utterly rooted out. For it is not enough not to
possess it,—a thing which comes to many as a matter of necessity:
but we ought, if by chance it is offered, not even to admit the
wish to have it. The madness of anger should be controlled; the
downcast look of dejection be overcome; vainglory should be despised,
the disdainfulness of pride trampled under foot, and the shifting and
wandering thoughts of the mind restrained by continual recollection of
God. And the slippery wanderings of our heart should be brought back
again to the contemplation of God as often as our crafty enemy, in his
endeavour to lead away the mind a captive from this consideration,
creeps into the innermost recesses of the heart.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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