Charles Williams : The New Christian Year

He who desires to become a spiritual man must not be ever taking note of others, and above all of their sins, lest he fall into wrath and bitterness, and a judging spirit towards his neighbors.

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20th Thursday after Trinity

Then first do we attain to the fullness of God's love as His children, when it is no longer happiness or misery, prosperity of adversity, that draws us to Him or keeps us back from Him.  What we should then experience none can utter; but it would be something far better than when we were burning with the first flame of love, and had great emotion, but less true submission.

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17th Tuesday after Trinity

The man who wishes to prove himself always in the right, in everything that he does, sees, hears, and discusses, and who will not give way and be silenced, will never be at peace in himself, and will have a barren, sullen, and wandering mind; he will prey upon himself, even though he be left in peace by all, and is tried by no outward pressure.

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A holy man once bethought himself how painful it must have been to God to have been seen by his enemies when he was taken prisoner. Our Lord answered him: "My enemies appeared unto Me in my presence as friends, who wished to help me in carrying out the sweetest and most desirable work that I ever worked in my life."

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7th Thursday after Trinity

Absolute poverty is thine when thou canst not remember whether anybody has ever owed thee or been indebted to thee for anything; just as all things will be forgotten by thee in the last journey of death.

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4th Wednesday after Easter

The nobler things are, the commoner they are.  Love is noble, because it is universal.

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Mercy is born of that love which we ought to exercise towards each other.  If we do not, God will require it of us at the Judgement Day; and, where He findeth not the requisite mercy, He will refuse mercy, as He Himself has said

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1st Wednesday after Christmas Week

A saint once said: "With whomever thou rejoicest, and with whomever thou sorrowest, with him wilt thou also be judged."

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1st Tuesday after Christmas Week

God does not lead all His servants by one road, nor in one way, nor at one time; for God is in all things; and that man is not serving God aright, who can only serve his own self-chosen way.

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God united Himself with her spirit, and spake to her His secret Word, and bare His only son in her spirit with unspeakable love and joy.  This is the eternal birth of Mary.

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