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While Extremely Sensitive As To The Slightest Approach To Slander, You Must Also Guard Against An Extreme Into Which Some People Fall, Who, In Their Desire To Speak Evil Of No One, Actually Uphold And Speak Well Of Vice.

There Are Many Who Say To The Lord, "i Give Myself Wholly To Thee, Without Any Reserve," But There Are Few Who Embrace The Practice Of This Abandonment, Which Consists In Receiving With A Certain Indifference Every Sort Of Event, As It Happens In Conformity With Divine Providence, As Well Afflictions As Consolations, Contempt And Reproaches As Honor And Glory.

We Must Never Undervalue Any Person. The Workman Loves Not That His Work Should Be Despised In His Presence. Now God Is Present Everywhere, And Every Person Is His Work.

The Damned Are In The Abyss Of Hell, As Within A Woeful City, Where They Suffer Unspeakable Torments, In All Their Senses And Members, Because As They Have Employed All Their Senses And Their Members In Sinning, So Shall They Suffer In Each Of Them The Punishment Due To Sin.

Do Not Complain Then Of Your Poverty, My Daughter, - We Only Complain Of That Which Is Unwelcome, And If Poverty Is Unwelcome To You, You Are No Longer Poor In Spirit.