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.
"If, devout soul, it is your will to please God and live a life of serenity in this world, unite yourself always and in all things to the divine will. Reflect that all the sins of your past wicked life happened because you wandered from the path of God's will. For the future, embrace God's good pleasure and say to him in every happening: "Yea, Father, for so it hath seemed good in thy sight." "
St Alphonsus de Liguori
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"The one thing necessary which Jesus spoke of to Martha and Mary consists in hearing the word of God and living by it."
R. Garrigou-Lagrange, OP
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"A tree that is cultivated and guarded through the care of its owner produces its fruit at the expected time.
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St John of the Cross, OCD - Doctor of the Church
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