"Everybody in this pragmatic, cerebral society always wants to put himself first, and this cannot be done. God doesn't want me to do it. God wants me to be third, never first. God comes first, my neighbor second, and I am third!"
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Catherine Doherty
Catherine de Hueck Doherty (nÊe Ekaterina Fyodorovna Kolyschkina; 15 August 1896 â 14 December 1985) was a Catholic social activist, author, and foundress of the Madonna House Apostolate.
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