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Just As A Very Little Fresh Water Is Blown Away By A Storm Of Wind And Dust, In Like Manner The Good Deeds, That We Think We Do In This Life, Are Overwhelmed By The Multitude Of Evils.

To Lovers Of The Truth, Nothing Can Be Put Before God And Hope In Him.

... If, To Me, To Live Is Christ (phil. 1:21), Truly My Words Ought To Be About Christ, My Every Thought And Deed Ought To Depend Upon His Commandments, And My Soul To Be Fashioned After His.

What Is The Benefit Of Fasting In Our Body While Filling Our Souls With Innumerable Evils? He Who Does Not Play At Dice, But Spends His Leisure Otherwise, What Nonsense Does He Not Utter? What Absurdities Does He Not Listen To? Leisure Without The Fear Of God Is, For Those Who Do Not Know How To Use Time, The Teacher Of Wickedness.

If Every Man Took Only What Was Sufficient For His Needs, Leaving The Rest To Those In Want, There Would Be No Rich And No Poor.