Keep your heart brave and ready for any service that shall be imposed upon it; according as you undertake many things for God, He will second you and work with you.
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Have the heart of a child; a will of wax, and a mind free from the slavery of all affection.
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Oh, what a great blessing it is, my daughter, to be pliable and easily turned to any service. Our Lord has taught us this submission by his example, as much as by his words.
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He who is very attentive to please the heavenly lover has no leisure for introspection; his mind continually tends whither love leads him.
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This exercise of the continual abandonment of one’s self to the hands of God includes in the most excellent manner all other exercises in their greatest simplicity, purity, and perfection, and while God leaves us the desire for it we should not change it.