Vulgar words in The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales (Page 1)
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In illustration of this he would quote Moses, who preferred the reproach of Israel to the glories of a kingdom offered to him by Pharaoh's daughter; of Esther, who hated the splendid ornaments with which they decked her to make her pleasing in the eyes of Assuerus; of the Apostles, whose greatest joy was to suffer shame and reproach for the name of Jesus; and of David, who danced before the Ark amid a crowd of buffoons and mountebanks, and who exulted in thus making himself appear contemptible in the eyes of Michol, his wife.
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David so acted, when he showed himself pleased to be despised as a buffoon by his own wife Michol.
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"But He will damn me," said the man, "for He is just."
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"Well," replied the criminal, "let Him damn me if he pleases--I am His.
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Can He not make living and thirst-quenching water flow forth from the jaw-bone of an ass?
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With the jaw-bone of an ass in that of Samson?
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Blessed Francis suffered this jest to pass, merely frowning slightly, but his modest silence only unchained the tongue of another scoffer who presumed to say that an ass had been given to them instead of a horse.
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Was it not upon an ass?"
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Again, in his eleventh Conference, he says: "If Balaam was well instructed by an ass, we may with greater reason believe that God, Who gave you this Superior, will enable him to teach you according to His will, though it may not be according to your own."