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Where Has The Scripture Made Merit The Rule Or Measure Of Charity?.

The Greatest Saint In The World Is Not He Who Prays Most Or Fasts Most; It Is Not He Who Gives Alms, Or Is Most Eminent For Temperance, Chastity Or Justice. It Is He Who Is Most Thankful To God.

Whatever Littleness And Vanity Is To Be Observed In The Minds Of Women, It Is, Like The Cruelty Of Butchers, A Temper That Is Wrought Into Them By That Life Which They Are Taught And Accustomed To Lead.

A Revelation Is To Be Received As Coming From God, Not Because Of Its Internal Excellence, Or Because We Judge It To Be Worthy Of God; But Because God Has Declared It To Be His In As Plain And Undeniable A Manner As He Has Declared Creation And Providence To Be His.

What Could Begin To Deny Self, If There Were Not Something In Man Different From Self?