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As we take the bitterest medicine to recover or preserve the health of the body, we should cheerfully endure sufferings, however repugnant to nature, and consider them efficacious remedies which God employs to purify the soul and conduct it to the perfection to which He called it. — St. Vincent de Paul.
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To give up prayer because we are often distracted at it is to allow the devil to gain his cause. —St. Alphonsus.
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Curb the desire of display, and do nothing from human respect. — St. Vincent de Paul.
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O Mary, vessel of purest gold, ornamented with pearls and sapphires, filled with grace and virtue, thou art the dearest of all creatures to the eyes of eternal Wisdom. — Bl. Henry Suso.
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We must be careful not to omit our prayers, confession, communion, and other exercises of piety, even when we find no consolation in them. — St. Vincent Ferrer.
