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• although he had now lost every drop of blood, he tore out his entrails and taking them in both hands flung them down on the crowd, calling on the Master of his life and spirit to give them back to him one day. Thus he died. (2 Maccabees 14, 46)

• When they answered, 'The living Lord himself, the Heavenly Sovereign, has ordered the observance of the seventh day,' (2 Maccabees 15, 4)

• Maccabaeus remained firm in his confident conviction that the Lord would stand by him. (2 Maccabees 15, 7)

• Encouraged by the noble words of Judas, which had the power to inspire valour and give the young the spirit of mature men, they decided not to entrench themselves in a camp, but bravely to take the offensive and, in hand-to-hand fighting, to commit the result to the fortune of war, since the city, their holy religion and the Temple were in danger. (2 Maccabees 15, 17)

• Maccabaeus took note of these masses confronting him, the glittering array of armour and the fierce aspect of the elephants; then, raising his hands to heaven, he called on the Lord who works miracles, in the knowledge that it is not by force of arms but as he sees fit to decide, that victory is granted by him to such as deserve it. (2 Maccabees 15, 21)

• At this, everyone sent blessings heavenwards to the glorious Lord, saying, 'Blessed be he who has preserved his holy place from pollution!' (2 Maccabees 15, 34)

• He hung Nicanor's head from the Citadel, a clear and evident sign to all of the help of the Lord. (2 Maccabees 15, 35)

• Glad heart means happy face, where the heart is sad the spirit is broken. (Proverbs 15, 13)

• Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall. (Proverbs 16, 18)

• A glad heart is excellent medicine, a depressed spirit wastes the bones away. (Proverbs 17, 22)

• Sickness the human spirit can endure, but when the spirit is broken, who can bear this? (Proverbs 18, 14)

• The human spirit is the lamp of Yahweh -- searching the deepest self. (Proverbs 20, 27)