Show mercy if you want…
Let this be the pattern for all: show mercy to others in the same way, with the same generosity, with the same promptness, as you want others to show mercy to you.
— Saint Peter Chrysologus (c. 380 – c. 450)
Show mercy to receive…
How can you have the effrontery to ask for what you refuse to give to others? You must show mercy in this world if you want to receive mercy in heaven.
— Saint Caesarius of Arles (460-542)
To have a right to do a thing…
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
— GK Chesterton (1874-1936)
Friendship is…
In this earthly life, after the affection for parents and sisters, one of the most beautiful affections is that of friendship; and every day I ought to thank God because he has given me men and lady friends of such goodness who form for me a precious guide for my whole life.
–Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati (1901–1925)
Only love God…
I really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least.
–Dorothy Day (1897-1980)
Blasphemy…
To say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy.
–Pope Francis (1936-
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