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The sinner who humbles himself in prayer is more acceptable than the devotee who is puffed up with pride: The courteous and kind-hearted soldier of fortune is better than the misanthropic and learned divine. A learned man without works is a bee without honey: Tell that harsh and ungenerous hornet: As thou yieldest no honey, wound not with thy sting.
For the mere sound of her own name, 'Helena, pronounced by Ericson, sent such a thrill of delight through her that it made her cheek flush. It did a great deal more than that it made her feel that she could not long conceal her emotion towards the Dictator, could not long pretend that it was nothing more than that which the most enthusiastic devotee feels for a political leader.
Here his thoughts would often turn even in the stress and strain of the daily life, as a devotee stops on his busy round and steps within the dim cathedral to gain strength and inspiration on his way. The next time Aunt Melvy came he asked for some of his law-books, and from that on there was no more idling or dreaming.
He had reached that renowned shrine, knelt, paid his devotions, and offered his prayer, when, as he issued from the door of the chapel, he was accosted by a young man, whom he conjectures to have been an angel descended to his relief, and who was probably some penitent or devotee bent on works of charity or self-mortification.
"I am," said he, "a devotee of the Holy Rosary," and he told me a host of miracles, to which I listened with the patience of an angel. When he had come to an end I asked him if he had had his dinner, and he replied that he was dying of hunger.
"Neither of these," he said, "has found the way of highest wisdom, nor are their ways of life productive of true rescue. The emaciated devotee by suffering produces in himself confused and sickly thoughts, not conducive even to worldly knowledge, how much less to triumph over sense!
This essential form of his the most compassionate Lord by his mere will individualises as a shape human or divine or otherwise, so as to render it suitable to the apprehension of the devotee and thus satisfy him. Ka. Gi.
In the crisis of the effort at self-control, he heard a groan, and, looking down, saw the mad devotee at his feet. In sliding from the shelf of the base, the man had been turned upon his back, so that he was lying face upward. On the forehead there were two cruel wounds; and the blood, yet flowing, had partially filled the hollows of the eyes, making the countenance unrecognizable.
A widow; somewhat a devotee, but very well informed. A woman of great merit." "But what course must I take to please this lady?" "What course? By my faith, young man, you ask a great many questions. I never yet learned to please a woman. I am green as a goose with them always.
Such, for example, was Saint Teresa, of whom William James, in his "Varieties of Religious Experience," says: "Her idea of religion seems to have been that of an endless amatory flirtation if one may say so without irreverence between the devotee and the Deity." Although this estimate of St.
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