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“The more you pray, the more illumined you will be and the more profoundly and intensely you will see the supreme Good, the supremely good Being; the more profoundly and intensely you see him, the more you will love him...”
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“Anyone who wishes to preserve grace must not lift the eyes of his soul from the Cross, either in the joy or in the sadness that I grant or permit him.”
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“True and pure love, that comes from God, is in the soul and ensures that one recognizes one’s own shortcomings and the divine goodness... Such love brings the soul to Christ, and it understands with certainty that in him no deception can be found or can exist. No particle of worldly love can be mingled with this love.”
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“The more perfectly and purely we see, the more perfectly and purely we love... Therefore the more we see the God and man, Jesus Christ, the more we are transformed in him through love... What I said of love... I also say of suffering: the more the soul contemplates the ineffable suffering of the God and man Jesus Christ the more sorrowful it becomes and is transformed through suffering.”
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“Through temporal poverty the soul will find eternal riches; through contempt and shame it will obtain supreme honor and very great glory; through a little penance, made with pain and sorrow, it will possess with infinite sweetness and consolation the Supreme Good, Eternal God.”
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