Choose a topic from Part 2B:
1. Quarreling is a disagreement between people, analtercation in words. When a person makes no effort to beagreeable, contradicts what people say, and gives occasion forbickering, he is quarrelsome. Quarreling is opposed to friendlinessor affability.
2. Quarreling seems to be a worse evil than flattery, forthe quarrelsome man causes displeasure and the flatterer tries toincrease pleasure. Yet sometimes flattery, by reason of the motivebehind it, is worse than quarreling.
"What good does it do to speak learnedly about the Trinity if, lacking humility, you displease the Trinity? Indeed it is not learning that makes a man holy and just, but a virtuous life makes him pleasing to God. "
Thomas á Kempis
* * *
"The name of Jesus, pronounced with reverence and affection, has a kind of power to soften the heart. "
St Philip Neri
* * *
"Happy is the youth, because he has time before him to do good. "
St Philip Neri
* * *