Thoughts from St Alphonsus for Every Day-August 9

SOME persons are so full of the spirit of con­tradiction that they controvert what others say solely for the sake of contention. "I only defend reason," they will say. In answer to these defenders of reason, Cardinal Bel­larmine says that an ounce of charity is better than a hundred loads of reason.
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From Thoughts from St Alphonsus for Every Day
Compiled by Rev. C. McNeiry, C.SS.R.
Imprimatur: Joseph Hull, C.SS.R., Prov. Angl. Sup.
Nihil Obstat: Innocentlus Apap, O.P., S.T.M., Censor Deptutatus.
Imprimatur: Edm. Can. Surmont, Vicarius Generalis.
Westmonasterii, Die 9a Junii, 1927.
First published 1927