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Topic: struggle
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“That [melancholy] is a bad disease. One has to bear with such persons and suffer; but they themselves more than anyone else.”
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“Sometimes I feel almost sinking under the weight, not only of present miseries, but still more, perhaps, under the apprehension of future misfortunes with which we are threatened.”
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“...we can rely on [God's] assistance - assistance of which we have now greater need than ever before...”
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“Detach yourself from yourself, my child, but gently, with that sweetness which is the distinctive mark of the spirit of God and not with that harshness which is the mark of yours.”
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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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“I have debts at Paris and I do not know how to pay them. However, I am not too much discouraged. I see in all this the will of God, and I submit to it.”
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“In the midst of all our storms, however, we have the consolation of seeing the religious spirit become solid ... and that is not a little thing.”
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“Let not a cross look or a word vex you; no, nothing in the world is worth losing our peace for...”
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“I would not change my cross for any consolation that Our Lord might give me instead...”
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