The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-02-21

Go to Our Lady, whose love is as the
sea; pray to her to help you to over
come your faults, to obtain for you
grace never to commit a deliberate
fault, never to offend God. She will
not only make you very good, but very
happy.
O ambition! torment of the ambi-
tious. How is it that thou, that tor
mentest the world, art also able to
please the world ?-St. Bernard
The heart will not be subject to so
many changes, if it roots out the first
! cause of its frivolity.-St Gregory the
| Great, o. S. B.
The Blessed Sacrament is not one
thing out of many; but it is all things,
and all in one, and all better than they
are in themselves, and all ours and for
us-and it is Jesus.-Father Faber.
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No one ever despises his own work
An author loves his book, an artist his
picture. God is our Author, our Artist,
and he cannot bear to see anything
done to spoil us. If we realized how
sensitive he Is about us, how great
would be our confidence in him! Like
children. we should place our hand in
his, and walk forward where he leads.
Father Dignan, S. ].
There is sometimes a greater charity
in seeming not to see our neighbor's
trouble than in trying to relieve it.
Let me alonei" is the prayer of many
a tortured heart when the curious. the
officious and the tactless force the door
of its place of desolation; albeit, they
bring wine and oil.-Katherine E. Con-
way.
l distrust both the intellect and the
morality of those people to whom dis
order is of no consequence-who can
live at ease in an Augean stable. What
surrounds usy reflects more or less that
which is within us. The mind is like
one of those dark lanterns. which in
spite of everything, still throw some
light around. If our tastes did not re-
veal our character, they would be no
longer tastes, but instincts.-Emile
Souvestre.
Let us serve God in the sunshine
while he makes the sun shine We
shall then serve him all the better in
the dark when he sends the darkness
1t is sure to come. Only let our light
be Gods light and our darkness Gods
darkness, and we shall be safe at home
when the great nightfall comes.
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You can live without many things
and still be comfortable, but if you try
to live without the approval of your
conscience, despair will creep over you
as the shadows of evening creep over
the earth sundown. Religion teaches
us to keep our faces toward heaven, as
"a mariner watches the pole star, and
to steer by what we see. To be true,
just, kindly, is to bring heaven so near
that when you die you have but a step
to go, and that step will take you with
in reach of welcome that will make you
glad that you have sacrificed all else
but kept your faith in the true and the
right intact.
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Which of us can sit down at the close
OF a day and say, To-day 1 have done
all that was in my power TO do for
humanity and righteousness? All, no!
we look for large things and forget
that which is close at hand. To take
life as God gives it, not as we want
it" and then make the best of it, is
the hard lesson that life puts before the
human soul to learn.
The worst of having inflicted wrong
upon the innocent is that you can never
by any means retrieve it. You can re-
pent, and it is probable that your very
repentance ensures your forgiveness at
a higher tribunal than that of earth's
judgment, but the results of wrong
cannot be wiped out or done away with |
in this life; they continue to exist. and, |
alasi often multiply, Even, the harsh |
and unjust word cannot be recalled, |
and however much we may regret hav- |
ing uttered it, somehow, it Is never for |
gotten.
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.
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