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Commonplaces
Piquant excerpts lifted from Touchstone editors' own reading & listening.
If a saint can be annoyed, it is at being called a saint. He may know that he has a close union with God; he also knows that, however close it is, he cannot be satisfied with it. A greater perfection always lies ahead, never to be completed in this life. The saint refuses to believe for an instant that he is a saint; at most he can hope that he may become one. Meanwhile, he does his best to hide the fact of his holiness.
—Theodore Maynard
Too Small a World: The Life of Mother Frances Cabrini (1945)
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