Maxims and Sayings of St. Philip Neri: Difference between revisions

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 maxim[3][11] = "We must not leave off our prayers because of distractions and restlessness of mind, although it seems useless to go on with them. He who perseveres for the whole of his accustomed time, gently recalling his mind to the subject of his prayer, merits greatly.";
 maxim[3][12] = "If in times of dryness in prayer we make acts of humility, self-knowledge, protestations of our own inability to help ourselves, and petitions for Godâ€™s assistance, all this is real and substantial prayer.";
-maxim[3][13] = "The best remedy for dryness of spirit, is to picture ourselves as beggars in the presence of God and the Saints, and like a beggar, to go first to one saint, then to another, to ask a spiritual alms of them with the same earnestness as a poor fellow in the streets would ask an alms of us.";
+maxim[3][13] = "The best remedy for dryness of spirit is to picture ourselves as beggars in the presence of God and the Saints, and like a beggar, to go first to one saint, then to another, to ask a spiritual alms of them with the same earnestness as a poor fellow in the streets would ask an alms of us.";
 maxim[3][14] = "We may ask a spiritual alms even corporally, by going first to the church of one Saint, and then to the church of another, to make our petition.";
 maxim[3][15] = "Without prayer a man will not persevere long in spirituality; we must have recourse to this most powerful means of salvation every day.";