Choose a topic from Part 1:
1. The Book of Life is a scriptural metaphor for predestination.
2. The life referred to in the phrase, Book of Life, is primarily the life of glory in heaven.
3. In one sense, however, anyone in the state of grace is in the Book of Life, inasmuch as he has, at the moment, a claim to be inscribed there. And a man who rejects the state of grace by committing mortal sin is, at least temporarily, "blotted from the Book of Life."
"We must not be behind time in doing good; for death will not be behind his time. "
St Phillip Neri
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"This is the greatest wisdom -- to seek the kingdom of heaven through contempt of the world. "
Thomas á Kempis
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"What good does it do to speak learnedly about the Trinity if, lacking humility, you displease the Trinity? Indeed it is not learning that makes a man holy and just, but a virtuous life makes him pleasing to God. "
Thomas á Kempis
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