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Dream that the more you struggle, the more you prove the love that you bear your God, and the more you will rejoice one day with your Beloved, in a happiness and rapture that can never end.

Teresa of Avila

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I am afraid that if we begin to put our trust in human help, some of our Divine help will fail us.
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