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Discretion is necessary in spiritual life. It is its part to restrain the exercises in the way of perfection, so as to keep us between the two extremes.— St. Ignatius.
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By denying our self-love and our inclinations in little things, we gradually acquire mortification and victory over ourselves. — St. Teresa.
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Should we fall a thousand times in a day, a thousand times we must rise again, always animated with unbounded confidence in the infinite goodness of God. — Ven. Louis of Granada.
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God's way in dealing with those whom He intends to admit soonest after this life into the possession of His everlasting glory, is to purify them in this world by the greatest afflictions and trials. — St. Ignatius.
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After the flower comes the fruit: we receive, as the reward of our fatigues, an increase of grace in this world, and in the next the eternal vision of God. — Bl. Henry Suso.
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God refuses no one the gift of prayer. By it we obtain the help that we need to overcome dis-
