An extract from 'Fr. Jean-Baptiste Saint-Jure - A Treatise on the Vows and Virtues of the Religious State'
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'The fifth motive to induce us to embrace poverty is its utility the wonderful advantages it procures; but to give some light thereupon, I say, first, that voluntary poverty, in its renunciation of the goods of earth, is the very plenitude of all riches an immense treasure; hence, there should be applied to it these words of St. Paul: "That having nothing, it possesses all things."'