Shelf by Quinn Flannery

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qflannery2026 — 2025-02-13 18:23:40 UTC

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

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qflannery2026 — 2025-02-13 18:25:02 UTC

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

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qflannery2026 — 2025-02-13 18:25:19 UTC

“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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qflannery2026 — 2025-02-13 18:26:12 UTC

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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qflannery2026 — 2025-02-13 18:26:53 UTC

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

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qflannery2026 — 2025-02-13 18:27:45 UTC

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

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qflannery2026 — 2025-02-13 18:28:00 UTC

“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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qflannery2026 — 2025-02-13 18:28:49 UTC

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

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qflannery2026 — 2025-02-13 18:31:39 UTC

“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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qflannery2026 — 2025-02-13 18:31:57 UTC

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

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qflannery2026 — 2025-02-13 18:32:22 UTC

“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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qflannery2026 — 2025-02-13 18:33:59 UTC

“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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qflannery2026 — 2025-02-13 18:34:43 UTC

“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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qflannery2026 — 2025-02-13 18:39:25 UTC

“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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qflannery2026 — 2025-02-13 18:46:26 UTC

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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qflannery2026 — 2025-02-13 18:53:50 UTC

“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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qflannery2026 — 2025-02-13 18:56:42 UTC

“God became man so that man might become God.”

Insight

qflannery2026 — 2025-02-13 23:58:12 UTC

All of these quotes relate to love because whether directly stated or not they all refer to either observing love, loving your neighbor, and the power of love. These quotes brought to me what the power of love can bring someone. They showed how loving your neighbor can help them. How observing love can reveal great things about people. Finally, how love is so powerful it is enough to be recognized as a disciple of Christ.

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qflannery2026 — 2025-02-14 00:05:20 UTC

These quotes brought to me how to handle with sin. First, how you cannot correct the sins of others because everyone sins and you are no better than them. Second, what sin truly is, evil. Lastly, how to avoid sin and what your intentions/actions should be to do so.

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qflannery2026 — 2025-02-14 00:08:25 UTC

These quotes both focus on what mercy is and how amazing it truly is. What they brought to me is how amazing it is. These quotes highlight how mercy is given to all people regardless of any situation, character, or any thing at all. Everyone can have mercy and should have mercy. Everyone deserves help without judgement or questions.

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qflannery2026 — 2025-02-14 00:12:28 UTC

These quotes all show the purpose of good actions. They highlight how good deeds are the foundation to being a good person if you are not good towards others you are not good at all. These quotes also show that good deeds are not done for attention, glory, or fame but to do the good action in itself and for the good of the needy.

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qflannery2026 — 2025-02-14 00:15:53 UTC

All of these quotes relate to spiritual growth and growing as a person. They highlight the importance of growing and changing because everyone sins or does bad even the saints. They show how we must grow to view things the correct way in life. Finally they show most importantly to grow your relationship with God and take his word and and to work to meet him in the afterlife is spiritual growth and can and should be achieved by all.

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qflannery2026 — 2025-02-14 18:17:33 UTC

My favorite quote is number 3- “There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.“ This is my favorite quote because it shows that any person regardless of the wrong they have done can build a relationship with God and change their life. This is important to me because it helps me not to live in the past and to focus on the present and to build my future. It also makes me forgive myself and move forward in life to try and build a better relationship with God.