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What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!

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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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Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.
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Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.
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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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Don't imagine that, if you had a great deal of time, you would spend more of it in prayer. Get rid of that idea it is no hindrance to prayer to spend your time well.
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Don't be curious of matters that don't concern you never speak of them, and don't ask about them.
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God deliver me from people who are so spiritual that they want to turn everything into perfect contemplation, come what may.
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How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!
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From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.
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Hope, O my soul, hope. You know neither the day nor the hour.
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Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.
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It is certain that the love of God does not consist in this sweetness and tenderness which we for the most part desire but rather in serving Him in justice, fortitude, and humility. His Majesty seeks and loves courageous souls.
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May I not come before You with empty hands, since we are rewarded according to our deeds.
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Everything seems to me to pass so quickly that we must concentrate on how to die rather than on how to live. How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross with Christ.
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