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Benedict of Nursia

Receive willingly and carry out effectively your loving father’s advice, that by the labor of obedience you may return to Him from whom you had departed by the sloth of disobedience.
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Advice Departed Disobedience Father Receive
Run while you have the light of life!
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Life Light Run Running
Be careful to be gentle, lest in removing the rust, you break the whole instrument.
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Break Instrument Rust
Whenever you begin any good work you should first of all make a most pressing appeal to Christ our Lord to bring it to perfection.
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Catholic Firsts Perfection
Every age and degree of understanding should have its proper measure of discipline.
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Boys Discipline Measure Proper Understanding
Girded with faith and the performance of good works, let us follow in his [Jesus] paths by the guidance of the Gospel.
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Catholic Good Gospel Jesus Path
To attribute to God, and not to self, whatever good one sees in oneself; but to recognize always that the evil is one’s own doing, and to impute it on one’s self.
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Attributes Evil Self
It is useless to subdue the flesh by abstinence, unless one gives up his irregular life, and abandons vices which defile his soul.
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Giving Irregular Life Soul Up Vices
Idleness is an enemy of the soul.
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Enemy Idleness Soul
Listen and attend with the ear of your heart.
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Faith Heart Inspiration
And let them first pray together, that so they may associate in peace.
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Firsts May Together
It is time now for us to rise from sleep.
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Rise Sleep Time
He who labors as he prays lifts his heart to God with his hands.
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Faith Heart Inspiration
There is nothing better to display the truth in an excellent light, than a clear and simple statement of facts.
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Facts Light Simple
Before all, and above all, attention shall be paid to the care of the sick, so that they shall be served as if they were Christ Himself.
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Attention Healing Sick
The sleepy like to make excuses.
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Excuse Make Sleepy

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