This is not the work of man, but the grace of Christ, which can and does effect such great things in frail flesh; and what it naturally abhors and flies, even this, through fervour of spirit, it now embraces and loves.
-Bk. II, ch. xii.
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Her spirit of self-sacrifice had become universal. She hastened to claim as her share anything that was hard or distasteful. Whatever God asked of her, she gave, without a thought of self.
-The Story of a Soul (L'Histoire d'une Âme).
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Adapted from Just For Today(©1943 Burns & Oates)
Nihil Obstat: Reginaldus Phillips, S.T.L.,Censor deputatus
Imprimatur: Edwardus Myers, Vic. Cap.
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