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

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-maxim[8][1] = "St. Peter and the other apostles and apostolical men, seeing the Son of God born in poverty, and then living so absolutely without anything, that He had not where to lay His Head, and contemplating Him dead and naked on a cross, stripped themselves also of all things, and took the road of the evangelical counsels.";
+maxim[8][1] = "Because St. Peter and the other apostles and apostolical men saw that the Son of God was born in poverty, because He lived so absolutely without anything that He had nowhere to lay His Head, and because they contemplated Him dead and naked on a cross, they also stripped themselves of all things and took the road of the evangelical counsels.";
 maxim[8][2] = "Nothing unites the soul to God more closely, or breeds contempt of the world sooner, than being harassed and distressed.";
 maxim[8][3] = "In this life there is no purgatory; it is either hell or paradise; for to him who serves God truly, every trouble and infirmity turns into consolations, and through all kinds of trouble he has a paradise within himself even in this world: and he who does not serve God truly, and gives himself up to sensuality, has one hell in this world, and another in the next.";