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Commonplaces
Piquant excerpts lifted from Touchstone editors' own reading & listening.
We should do as the shepherds do in the fields during the winter—life is a very long winter: they make a fire; but from time to time they rush out to gather wood from all about to replenish it. If we were like these shepherds and knew how to keep the fire of God’s love always replenished with prayer and good works, it would never be extinguished.
—Jean Vianney
—From a sermon by St. Jean Vianney in Secrets of the Saints by Henri Gheon (1954)
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