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the sake of pleasing others; and often do we witness that exterior ornaments are sought after and used to hide their natural defects.
We are careful to adorn our bodies which soon will be food for worms, and we neglect that most beautiful ornament of the soul which is the grace of God.
PERE DUNEAU.
Sermon in Advent,
Acknowledge, O Christian, thy dignity, and after having been made participator of the divine nature, do- not return to thy first state by leading a life, which would tarnish thy nobility.
Is it not a gift, exceeding all other gifts, that God should call man His child, and that man should call God his Father?
St. Leo.
On the Nativity.
