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Topic: compassion
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“The heart understands the heart. As yours was speaking in your letter, mine understood its language.”
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“I fully enter into your difficulties, this is the same as telling you that I suffer with you. Need I tell you that I pray for you?”
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“Yes above all things; justice, justice. If any preferences may be shown let it be to the poorest or most abandoned.”
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“Show kindness to them [children] and be attentive to their spiritual and physical needs.”
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“To write requires time; but to love, to cherish, to pray for, through that desire we have for the happiness of our friends, time is not needed.”
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“As I said before, love caused her death. Love broke the bonds that held her soul captive. What a death! Oh, no, not death, but rather the beginning of life - and what a life!”
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“You must try to invent means of correcting your children, but remember that the most powerful means are rewards: a kind word, an approving glance, a little gesture, is sometimes sufficient to correct what the most severe punishment would not have overcome.”
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“...give a little pleasure to your poor Mother Theodore, who loves you so much, and who would like to see you perfect, but who is very far from being perfect herself.”
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“Let us keep ever united in Our Lord. When we love one another in [God], we love [God] better.”
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