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Thank God for the things that I do not own.

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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.
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My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants so much so, that he never could be persuaded to keep slaves, for he pitied them so much: and a slave belonging to one of his brothers being once in his house, was treated by him with as much tenderness as his own children.
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If we do not use great care to mortify our will, there are many things which can deprives us of the holy freedom of spirit that we are seeking in order to fly more freely to our Creator, without always being bogged down with the clay of this earth. Moreover, there can never be solid virtue in a soul that is attached to its own will.
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What a miserable life is this! There is no happiness that is secure and nothing that does not change.
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However much we do to avoid them, we shall never lack crosses in this life if we are in the ranks of the Crucified.
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