Please recommend book/s for love, compassion, criticism, forgive, etc

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Hi, can someone recommend me some good book/s about love, compassion, forgive, and humility? Or any kind of books that relate to changing oneself. I have to admit that I criticize and judge unfairly at times. I need help in seeing a different view and give compassion instead of criticizing.
 
How about the New Testament?

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Best teacher of love and compassion, especially forgiveness, was Jesus Himself.
 
If you are disagreeing with a member of the opposite sex then I would recommend "Men are from mars women are from venus ". I know its getting to be an old book but it helped my marriage. It helps you understand how men and women seem so crazy to each other sometimes :). And of course the new testament as TheRealJuliane suggested.
 
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Hi, can someone recommend me some good book/s about love, compassion, forgive, and humility? Or any kind of books that relate to changing oneself. I have to admit that I criticize and judge unfairly at times. I need help in seeing a different view and give compassion instead of criticizing.
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Cardinal Bona’s book Guidance to Heaven, as published by TAN is GREAT I can say that Cardinal Bona’s book had definitely guided me to greater humility, love of God, and love of neighbor. tanbooks.benedictpress.com/index.php/Guidance-To-Heaven

Next, I recommend the writings of Blessed Ramon Llull (sometimes spelled Raymond Lull). I haven’t found any books of his writings, but some bits and pieces can be found here:

lullianarts.net/TreeOfScience/TreeOfScience2.pdf

Here are some samples of his writing from that page:

**About love
**
  1. Oh God! You abide in the will and in love, remember your servant who procures your
    honour with love.
  2. God has the magnitude of the lover, the lovable and the beloved in his will just as God has
    the magnified and the magnifying in the magnifier.
  3. The will is stronger through loving than through hating and therefore, hating cannot exist
    in God.
  4. The truth has magnitude inasmuch as the verifier, the verifying and the verified are loved.
  5. Wisdom finds its fill in knowing goodness, magnitude and eternity, and the will likewise
    find its fill in loving them.
  6. God so wanted to love man that He wanted to suffer death for the sake of man.
  7. If you know how to concord the nature of the lover, the lovable and loving, then you
    know how to protect yourself from all the vices.
  8. Good loving in the will and good remembering through friendship are more valuable than
    all the good that is sensed through the senses.
  9. If you know how to use the will, nobody can defraud you, nor can you ever be short of
    any good thing.
  10. Nobody can give more than someone who gives his loving without any sinful intention.
**Proverbs from the flowers of the human-corporeal tree
**
  1. A man’s life consists in the concordance of its parts.
  2. A sinner cannot claim to be right in anything that has to do with God.
  3. A man who loves himself more than God is a man who belongs to the devil.
  4. A man who loves God more than himself procures glory for God.
  5. It is more useful for man to think well than to feel well.
  6. There is hardly a man who does what he was created to do.
  7. Not all men with good reputations are good.
  8. The good reputation of an evil man is a habit of hypocrisy.
  9. A man who wants to be valued more for his body than for his soul has less value than a
    donkey.
  10. A man who very frequently imagines where he came from knows the paths of day and
    night.
**Proverbs from the flowers of the human-spiritual tree
**
  1. The will asked the intellect to tell it what it should say to its beloved because it loved its
    beloved more than itself.
  2. If the will greatly loved the beloved it would not let him fall into oblivion.
  3. When the intellect saw the beloved holding a sword in one hand and a flower in his other
    hand; it told the will to fear the beloved and to hope in his mercy.
  4. The will loved its beloved so much that it had no time to love itself.
  5. Memory remembered the beloved, the intellect understood him and the will desired that
    he should be honoured by all men.
  6. The will hoped that the beloved would remember sinners and treat them with compassion.
  7. The will fell ill through excessive loving and it was cured by a surge in remembering and
    understanding of the beloved with goodness.
  8. Memory, the intellect and the will wept over their sins and the beloved sent them charity
    and hope.
  9. A will that loves good gathers white flowers but a will that loves evil gathers black
    flowers.
  10. The will rose aloft to meet the Beloved and told him that he world he owned was being destroyed by evil men.
**About the articles on Divinity
**
  1. Since everything exists because God exists, if God did not exist then no other being would exist.
  2. Nothing can deviate the world from the end for which it was created.
  3. God can do more within himself than anywhere else.
**Proverbs from the flowers of the eviternal tree
**
  1. “Tell me, Hell, what do you desire?” asked Paradise, and Hell replied: “Paradise, I desire that no good should ever come to you…”
  2. “Tell me, Hell, why are you so angry?” “Paradise, I am angry because I have been robbed by Christ.”
  3. “Tell me, Hell, why do you wrong your friends?” “Paradise, it is because I do not love the
    public good.”
  4. “Tell me, Hell, what kind of dealings do your tenants engage in?” “Paradise, we deal in despair and in every kind of evil.”
  5. “Tell me, Hell, can anyone ever be released from you?” “Paradise, no resident of mine is capable of doing Penance.”
  6. “Tell me, Hell, why are you fed with such a vast multitude of people?” “Paradise, it is
    because the Christ is little known and little loved.”
  7. “Tell me, Hell, why are you so evil?” “Paradise, it is because I am lawless.”
  8. “Tell me, Hell, what are you afraid of?” “Paradise, I fear the Christ because he causes
    people to have contrition.”
 
TheRealJuliane said:
How about the New Testament?

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Best teacher of love and compassion, especially forgiveness, was Jesus Himself.
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Yes, I agree that the NT really is the BEST mover of the human heart to humility and love of God and neighbor.
 
Hmmm I have heard that 30 Days to Taming the Tongue by Deborah Pegues is helpful;)
 
tonie said:
Hi, can someone recommend me some good book/s about love, compassion, forgive, and humility? Or any kind of books that relate to changing oneself. I have to admit that I criticize and judge unfairly at times. I need help in seeing a different view and give compassion instead of criticizing.
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Forgiveness, a Catholic Approach by Father Scott Hurd. It is fabulous
 
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