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suffer for God is the height of your happiness in this life and the privileged gift of those predestined to glory.
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The cemetery of the people that was in this place, with the memory of the little infants that were burned alive there, in order to offer them as a sacrifice to the Idol Moloch, could have fittingly been the reason why it was named the valley of afflictions and tears and death, and left the same names to the Torrent that waters it.
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When knowledge is not followed by practice, it is the cause of a greater blindness of spirit than if one had not at all received it.
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is a great secret of advancement in the spiritual life to admire what one cannot imitate and live content in one’s state, carefully keeping with simplicity and fervor the talent God has given, and to adore the mysteries which our knowledge cannot attain and remain seated below until it is said to us : Dear friend, ascend higher
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Faithful soul, you are mistaken if you believe that the complacency you take in your actions is the rule of the pleasure which God receives from them : on the contrary, His pleasure is found, most often, there where we find less savour.
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See what consolation you must take from the thought that nothing bad can happen to you in your life that has not first passed through the loving heart of Jesus, in order to take on divine qualities, before the affliction reach you.