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• Such sins, even if they do not kill all grace in us, do harm, nevertheless; and though they are only venial in themselves, they make us apt, ready, and inclined to lose grace and to fall into mortal sin.

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  Fall, Grace, Demise

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• The gracious, eternal God permits the spirit to green and bloom and to bring forth the most marvelous fruit, surpassing anything a tongue can express and a heart conceive.

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  Heart, Green, Tongue

  Johannes Tauler (1985). “Johannes Tauler, Sermons”, p.86, Paulist Press

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• If you fall seventy times a day, rise seventy times and return to God so that you will not fall too often.

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  Fall, Return, Turn To God

  Johannes Tauler (1985). “Johannes Tauler, Sermons”, p.166, Paulist Press

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• Let God and all his creation teach you what your sins are.

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  Letting Go, Sin, Creation

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• Is it not shameful and a great scandal that we poor latecomers, we Christians, aided by grace, the Faith, and the sacraments, should be running about like blind hens, ignorant of our own self and of the depth within us?

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  Self, Ignorant, Depth

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• Rid yourself of anything that is not directed toward God.

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• Spiritually good people, pure in heart, who long for the Blessed Sacrament but cannot receive at the time, can receive spiritually... even a hundred times a day, in sickness and in health, with immeasurable grace and profit.

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  Blessed, Heart, Long

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• Never believe that true prayer consists in mere babbling, reciting so many psalms and vigils, saying your beads while you allow your thoughts to roam.

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  Prayer, Believe, Psalms

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• Your meditations may be as profound, as exalted, as devout as you like; you may practise every pious exercise you can manage, but all this is as nothing in comparison with the Blessed Sacrament. What we do may be godly, but this sacrament is God Himself!

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  Blessed, Godly, Exercise

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• You don't have to leave the world to be holy and grow closer to the Holy One.

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  World, Holy, Grows

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• I never mingled with men, but I came home less of a man than I went out.

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  Home, Men, Society

  Gottesfreund (im Oberland.), Rulman Merswin, Johannes Tauler (1857). “The history and life of the Reverend Doctor John Tauler of Strasbourg: with twenty-five of his sermons (Temp. 1340)”, p.204

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