"If you wish to learn and appreciate something worth while, then love to be unknown and considered as nothing. Truly to know and despise self is the best and most perfect counsel."

Thomas á Kempis

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"The supreme perfection of man in this life is to be so united to God that all his soul with all its faculties and powers are so gathered into the Lord God that he becomes one spirit with him, and remembers nothing except God, is aware of and recognises nothing but God, but with all his desires unified by the joy of love, he rests contentedly in the enjoyment of his Maker alone."

St Albert the Great

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"Shun too great a desire for knowledge, for in it there is much fretting and delusion. Intellectuals like to appear learned and to be called wise. Yet there are many things the knowledge of which does little or no good to the soul, and he who concerns himself about other things than those which lead to salvation is very unwise. "

Thomas á Kempis

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FROM THE "PENNY CATECHISM"

     

re Article 11 of Apostles' Creed

128.

What is the eleventh article of the Creed?

 

The eleventh article of the Creed is, 'the resurrection of the body'.

 
129. What do you mean by 'the resurrection of the body'?

 

By the resurrection of the body I mean that we shall all rise again with the same bodies at the day of judgment.

 
 

re Article 12 of Apostles' Creed

  130. What is the twelfth article of the Creed?
 
 

The twelfth article of the Creed is, 'life everlasting'.

 
  131. What does 'life everlasting' mean?
 
 

'Life everlasting' means that the good shall live forever in the glory and happiness of heaven.

 
132. What is the glory and happiness of heaven?
 

The glory and happiness of heaven is to see, love, and enjoy God forever.

 
133. What does the Scripture say of the happiness of heaven?
 

The Scripture says of the happiness of heaven: 'That eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man, what things God hath
prepared for them that love him'. 1 Cor. 2:9

 
134. Shall not the wicked also live forever?
 

The wicked also shall live and be punished forever in the fire of hell.