Your miseries and infirmities should not astonish you; God has seen many others, and his mercy does not reject the miserable, but is exercised in doing them good.
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We must do everything through a motive of love, and nothing through compulsion. Our love for obedience must be greater than our fear of disobedience.
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I leave you liberty of spirit, not that which excludes obedience, but that which excludes constraint, scruple, or over-eagerness.
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Here are the marks of true liberty: 1st. The heart which possesses this liberty is not attached to consolations, but receives afflictions with all the sweetness that the flesh admits of. I do not say that it does not love and desire consolations, but that the heart is not bound to them.
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2nd. Such a heart is in no way attached to spiritual exercises, so that if sickness or any other accident interferes with them it feels no regret. I also do not say that it does not love them, but that it is not attached to them.