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Topic: respect
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“Show kindness to them [children] and be attentive to their spiritual and physical needs.”
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“You must try to invent means of correcting your children, but remember that the most powerful means are rewards: a kind word, an approving glance, a little gesture, is sometimes sufficient to correct what the most severe punishment would not have overcome.”
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“...give a little pleasure to your poor Mother Theodore, who loves you so much, and who would like to see you perfect, but who is very far from being perfect herself.”
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“Be joyful, amiable toward each other. Have nothing on your conscience to trouble you.”
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“Never scold nor punish more than the fault deserves. Children naturally love justice even when it punishes them.”
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“Who has ever perished that entrusted herself to Mary? Take her as your model on the way.”
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“Her [Sister Saint Francis Xavier] example animates and confounds me. I am near her in the chapel distracted with temporalities and business, and I see her lost in God and melting with love for our Lord.”
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“Be gay and cheerful with your Sisters, even when you do not feel like it. The Divine Infant will be pleased at your efforts and will give you a great many graces. With fidelity to this grace you will pass a happy Christmas and commence a happy new year.”
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