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Topic: struggle
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“All love one another tenderly, and this consolation is well calculated to support us in the pains we now suffer and in those which await us.”
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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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“Her [Sister Saint Francis Xavier] example animates and confounds me. I am near her in the chapel distracted with temporalities and business, and I see her lost in God and melting with love for our Lord.”
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“You may have to wait longer than you would like, you may have to bear privations; but, bear and forbear.”
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“... in order to attain the perfection to which you are called, a solid foundation is required.”
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“Believe me ... always and everywhere you will find people who will try your patience and you yourself will try theirs.”
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“The cold freezes us to the bones. My nose and fingers are frozen. We ought to be accustomed to it, as for almost four months the ground has been icy and more or less deeply covered with snow.”
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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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