St. John the Baptist, through obedience, kept himself absent from our Saviour, knowing well that to seek our Saviour outside of obedience was to lose Him.
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I leave you to imagine the good odour which this beautiful lily (the Blessed Virgin) spreads in the house of Zachary. What could she give forth but that with which she was filled? And she was filled with Jesus.
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My God, I marvel to find that I am so full of myself after so many communions.
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There are two kinds of wills: one says, “I would like very much to do good; but it costs a disagreeable effort; it is too difficult;” the other says: “I desire indeed to do good; the will is not wanting, but the power alone stops me.” The first fills hell, the second paradise, and it was the latter will which caused Daniel to be called a “man of desires.”
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I pray you, hide your trouble from yourself as much as you can, and if you feel it, at least do not think about it. You are a little given to dwelling upon it.