St. Robert Bellarmine-Compassion is preferable to cleanliness

By Catholic Digest on November 3, 2018

Optional Memorial of St. Martin de Porres, Religious;

Blessed Virgin Mary

Compassion is preferable to cleanliness. Reflect that with a little soap I can easily clean in some way a burden to others, whether he is a superior or a subject, an old man or a young one, a scholar or a dunce.

— St. Robert Bellarmine

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St. Robert Bellarmine-Compassion is preferable to cleanliness

Compassion is preferable to cleanliness. Reflect that with a little soap I can easily clean in some way a burden to others, whether he is a superior or a subject, an old man or a young one, a scholar or a dunce.

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