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People should not show off their good deeds. If they do their efforts will be wasted. True goodness comes from helping others without seeking praise. Choosing what is right over what is easy is important. What we have is meant to be shared not wasted on selfish pleasures.

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It is better to show kindness than to judge others. A truly merciful person helps anyone in need no matter who they are. People make mistakes but harsh words can break their spirit. Instead of punishing them, we should encourage them to do better. Mercy means giving even when someone does not deserve it.

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What people love shows who they really are. The closer someone gets to God, the more they see their own flaws. God became human so that humans could become closer to Him. The Bible is not just for reading it should guide our hearts. True wisdom starts with understanding ourselves.

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Jesus came not to impress people but to heal and teach. Love is the most important sign of a true follower of Christ. Everyone has a past, and everyone has a future. No one is better than another, and we should see ourselves in others. Love is greater than any miracle or rule.

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This is a great quote in my opinion , it tells others to look in the mirror. Before you look to put someone on a straight you should look in the mirror and see if you are good. Now when you are on a straight then you have room to help and straighten others

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He also said,

“The one who makes a show of his good works and publicizes them is like the one who threw seeds

on the ground,

‘and the fowls of the air came and devoured them up’ [Matt 13:4]. But the one who conceals his

way of life is as one who sows in a furrow in the ground and who will reap an abundant harvest.

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“You cannot put straight in others what is warped in yourself.

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“No act of virtue can be great if it is not followed by advantage for others. So, no matter how much time you spend

fasting, no matter how much you sleep on a hard floor and eat ashes and sigh continually, if you do no good to others,

you do nothing great.

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“This is why God has allowed you to have more: not for you to waste on prostitutes, drink, fancy food, expensive

clothes, and all other kinds of indolence, but for you to distribute to those in need.

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“Evil, then consists essentially in the choice of what is lower in preference to what is higher.

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“The merciful man is as a harbour to those who are in need; and the harbour receives all who are escaping shipwreck,

and frees them from danger, whether they be evil or good; whatsoever kind of men they be that are in peril, it receives

them into its shelter. You also, when you see a man suffering shipwreck on land through poverty, do not sit in

judgment on him, nor require explanations, but relieve his distress.

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“Mercy is called by that name for this reason, that it gives even to the unworthy.

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“For Christians above all men are forbidden to correct the stumblings of sinners by force.

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The abbot Pastor said,

“If a man has sinned and denies it not, but says ‘I have sinned,

’ scold him not, for you will

break the purpose of his heart. But rather say to him,

‘Do not be sad, my brother, but watch yourself hereafter,

’

and you will rouse his heart to repentance.

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“In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.

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“The nearer a man approaches to God, the greater sinner he sees himself to be. For the prophet Isaiah saw God,

and said that he was unclean and undone.

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“God became man so that man might become God.

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“The Holy Scriptures were not given to us that we should enclose them in books, but that we should engrave them

upon our hearts.

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“The answer is this. The Lord did not come to make a display. He came to heal and to teach suffering men. For one

who wanted to make a display the thing would have been just to appear and dazzle the beholders. But for Him Who

came to heal and to teach the way was not merely to dwell here, but to put Himself at the disposal of those who needed

Him, and to be manifested according as they could bear it, not vitiating the value of the Divine appearing by exceeding

their capacity to receive it.

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“But first I want you to tell me this: do you know the power of love? Christ passed over all the marvelous works which

were to be performed by the apostles and said,

"By this shall men know that ye are my disciples, if ye love one

another.

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“There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.

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“A monk is a man who considers himself one with all men because he seems constantly to see himself in every man.

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“You cannot put straight in others what is warped in yourself.

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