Choose a topic from Part 2B:
1. Honor paid to God may be wholly spiritual and in theheart, and it may also be expressed in outward acts and signs. Buthonor paid to creatures is external, for creatures cannot read theheart. The respect we have inwardly for creatures does not trulyhonor them until it is shown to them, and this cannot beexcept in external signs. We honor creatures by words, deeds,sensible signs, salutations, tributes, statues, and so on.
2. Honor or veneration is owed to persons of excellence,whether this be a general or a particular excellence, whether it beofficial or personal excellence.
3. The honor and veneration due to men is called by theGreek name of dulia. This is distinct from the honor andveneration paid to God, which is latria.
4. There are no essentially different kinds ofdulia, but it may be accidentally diversified by thevarious human relationships on which it is founded.
"Obedience is a short cut to perfection."
St Philip Neri
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"Let persons in the world sanctify themselves in their own houses, for neither the court, professions, or labour, are any hindrance to the service of God."
St Philip Neri
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"It is vanity to love what passes quickly and not to look ahead where eternal joy abides.
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Thomas á Kempis
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