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SELF-DENIAL
May we be annihilated in ourselves to live wholly to God! (Letters to Persons in Religion, II 1)
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We do not become perfect by the multiplication of exercises, penances and austerities, but rather by the purity of love with which we do them. (Spiritual Conferences, 13)
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The crosses that we shape for ourselves are always lighter than the ones laid upon us. (The Spirit of St. François de Sales, X 11)
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We do not love crosses unless they are in gold, with pearls and enamel. (Letters to Persons in the World, I 10)
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Devout souls find much bitterness in their exercises of mortification; but in performing them they convert them into the most delicious sweetness. (Introduction to the Devout Life, Part I, Chapter 2)
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How agreeable to God should we be, if we knew how to use properly the subjects of mortification which our vocation affords. (Letters to Persons in the World, II 18)
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To cure the itch there is not so much need to wash and bathe ourselves as to purify the blood. (Introduction to the Devout Life, Part III, Chapter 23)
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It is not right all at once to show strong signs of this death to our natural passion. (Letters to Persons in Religion, II 3 )
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We have not to carry the cross of others, but our own. (Letters to Persons in the World, II 4)
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Behold a quantity of crosses and mortifications which you have neither chosen nor wished; receive them, love them! (Letters to Persons in the World, V 2)
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It is a thousand times better to die with our Lord than to live without Him. (Letters to Persons in the World, VI 21)
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