Note 642 — Chapter XIII · MORAL HISTORY OF THE AGE OF CHRISTIAN ASCETICISM
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“If you do any good beyond what is commanded by God, you will gain for yourself more abundant glory, and will be more honored by God than you would otherwise be,” was the teaching of the Church respecting the meritoriousness of ascetic practices. Cf. Newman Smyth, Christian Ethics (1892), p. 313.