nil placitum sine pace Deo: non munus ad aram cum cupias offerre probat, si turbida fratrem mens inpacati sub pectoris oderit antro, nec, si flammicomis Christi pro nomine martyr ignibus insilias servans inamabile votum bile sub obliqua, pretiosam proderit Iesu inpendisse animam, meriti quia clausula pax est.
Without peace nothing is pleasing to God. When thou desirest to offer a gift at the altar, it is not acceptable to Him if thy soul is angry and hates thy brother in the depths of a heart unreconciled; and if in martyrdom for the name of Christ thou shouldst leap into the fire with its tresses of flame, while from spiteful wrath thou dost still keep some uncharitable desire, it will not profit thee to have sacrificed thy precious life to Jesus, for it is peace that is the perfection of merit.
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