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133. Faintheartedness or Pusillanimity

1. Faintheartedness or pusillanimity is a culpable dispositionto refuse to face up to situations of difficulty that one mightwell handle and overcome. By presumption, a man takes on more thanhe can handle; by faintheartedness, a man refuses to do what hecan. This faintheartedness is a sin. The servant who buried his onetalent because he was too fainthearted to engage in trade with it,was punished, as for a sin (Matt., chap. 15).

"God gives us some things, as the beginning of faith, even when we do not pray. Other things, such as perseverance, he has only provided for those who pray."
St Augustine

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"It is vanity to love what passes quickly and not to look ahead where eternal joy abides. "
Thomas á Kempis

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"The Lord has always revealed to mortals the treasures of his wisdom and his spirit, but now that the face of evil bares itself more and more, so does the Lord bare his treasures more."
St John of the Cross, OCD - Doctor of the Church

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