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Be content to progress in slow steps until you have legs to run and wings with which to fly.

Pio of Pietrelcina

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I remind you that I belong with great ardor to everyone and for this reason I am suffering immensely for all.
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I feel a great desire to abandon myself with greater trust to the Divine Mercy and to place my hope in God alone.
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Never rise from the table without having given due thanks to the Lord. If we act in this way, we need have no fear of the wretched sin of gluttony.
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Don't consider me too demanding if I ask you once again to set great store by holy books and read them as much as you can. This spiritual reading is as necessary to you as the air you breathe.
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