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Monday Musings - How Do We Look Upon Others?

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The previous quotation is from Fire & Light - Learning to Receive the Gift of God .  The following questions follow Father Philippe's quotation and are excerpted from Pondering Tidbits of Truth, Volume 6 : PAUSE AND PONDER :  How welcoming and inviting am I to those I encounter daily? Do people feel comfortable around me? Am I able to treat everyone as God would?

Pondering Tidbits of Truth - November 3, 2022

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Pondering Tidbits of Truth is my simple and inadequate way of providing nuggets of spiritual wisdom for you to chew on from time to time.       Peter Kreeft, Ph.D. "There are only two kinds of people in the world: saints, who know they are sinners, and sinners who think they are saints. Your entrance card to Doctor Jesus’ office is your spiritual sickness; He treats only the needy. Do you qualify?"  (From The Man Who Left His Mark: How Mark’s Gospel Answers Modern Questions )     Alexander de Rouville "We should speak only when circumstances or the glory of God or love for our neighbor requires it. Apart from these cases it is better to be silent. In silence we find the spirit of recollection and the grace of God which is its source. We learn that to be recollected and interior people we must speak but little, and then say what the Spirit tells us in our heart we ought to say...Sentiments of piety easily vanish in the course o...