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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.

Do Not Be Ashamed Of Being Poor, Or Of Asking Alms. Receive What Is Given You With Humility, And Accept A Refusal Meekly. Frequently Call To Mind Our Lady's Journey Into Egypt With Her Holy Child, And Of All The Poverty, Contempt And Suffering They Endured. If You Follow Their Example You Will Indeed Be Rich Amid Your Poverty.

The State Of Marriage Is One That Requires More Virtue And Constancy Than Any Other; It Is A Perpetual Exercise In Mortification.

A Good Discourse Is That From Which Nothing Can Be Retrenched Without Cutting Into The Quick.

It Is Not Those Who Commit The Least Faults Who Are The Most Holy, But Those Who Have The Greatest Courage, The Greatest Generosity, The Greatest Love, Who Make The Boldest Efforts To Overcome Themselves, And Are Not Immediately Apprehensive About Tripping.