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Topic: compassion
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“You yourselves know well, when you ardently desire to do something, though very fatiguing, nothing appears too difficult.”
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“...you yourself are often the cause of what you suffer. And I say it also in order that you may endeavor to become more amiable and loving, more united to Our Lord...”
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“Indeed it is very difficult, and it requires an uncommon virtue, not to make others suffer when we suffer.”
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“And so the most pressing desire of the hearts of your Daughters of the Woods is to pray for you ... not only on the first of the year, but every day of their lives.”
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“Have you sometimes thought, my dear sisters, that you are called to do on Earth what our Lord [Jesus] did? He instructed and you instruct.”
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“...Lo! I said to myself, these Americans, so proud of their liberty, thus make game of the liberty of others. Poor Negroes! I would have wished to buy them all that I might say to them, "Go! Bless Providence. You are free!"”
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“O my dear daughters, how consoling is this mystery of the Eucharist! If we knew how to appreciate it, it would suffice to fortify and sustain us; is there anything sweeter than to have a friend to whom we may at any hour confide our difficulties and our pains?”
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“Charity does not consist in loving one or two persons and being indifferent to all the rest.”
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