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It Often Happens That We Pray God To Deliver Us From Some Dangerous Temptation, And Yet That God Does Not Hear Us, But Permits The Temptation To Continue Troubling Us. In Such A Case, Let Us Understand That God Permits Even This For Our Greater Good.

Let Us Read The Lives Of The Saints; Let Us Consider The Penances Which They Performed, And Blush To Be So Effeminate And So Fearful Of Mortifying Our Flesh.

"the Flowers Have Appeared In Our Land: The Time Of Pruning Is Come: The Voice Of The Turtle-dove Is Heard In Our Land." When The Soul, Like The Solitary Turtle-dove, Retires And Recollects Itself In Meditation To Converse With God, Then The Flowers, That Is, Good Desires, Appear; Then Comes The Time Of Pruning, That Is, The Correction Of Faults That Are Discovered In Mental Prayer.

The Definitions Of The Church Are The Rules Of True Faith.

True, He Is Infinite Majesty, But He Is Also Infinite Goodness And Infinite Love. There Can Be No Greater Lord Than God; Neither Can There Be A More Ardent Lover Than He.