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“An active effort to acquire virtue is the first step towards goodness, but an active effort to acquire honor is the first step towards contempt and shame… He who can find pearls will not stop to pick up shells; and so a man who aims at real goodness will not be keen about outward tokens of honor.”

“Consider what God does, and what you are doing—you will see his eyes ever fixed upon you in love incomparable. "O my God," you will cry out, "why cannot I always be looking upon You, even as You look on me? Why do I think so little about You? O my soul, your only resting place is God, and yet how often do you wander?"

— St. Francis De Sales

i’m literally on page ten, chapter six, and it’s already my favourite book of all time. 🦢