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

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 maxim[7][23] = "We may distinguish three kinds of vainglory; the first we may call <i>mistress</i>; that is, when vainglory goes before our works, and we work for the sake of it: the second we may call <i>companion</i>; that is, when a man does not do a work for the sake of vainglory, but feels complacency in doing it: the third we may call <i>servant</i>; that is, when vainglory rises in our work, but we instantly repress it. Above all things never let vainglory be <i>mistress</i>.";
 maxim[7][24] = "When vainglory is <i>companion</i>, it does not take away our merit; but perfection requires that it should be <i>servant</i>.";
-maxim[7][25] = "He who works purely for the love of God desires nothing but His honor, and thus is ready in everything either to act or not to act, not just in indifferent matters but even in good ones; and he is always resigned to the Will of God.";
+maxim[7][25] = "He who works purely for the love of God desires nothing but His honor, and thus is ready in everything either to act or not to act, not just in indifferent matters, but even in good ones; and he is always resigned to the Will of God.";
 maxim[7][26] = "The Lord grants in a moment what we may have been unable to obtain in dozens of years.";
 maxim[7][27] = "To obtain perfectly the gift of humility, four things are required: to despise the world, to despise no person, to despise oneself, to despise being despised.";