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Pain is a gift that God gives to His creatures.

— Chiara Lubich

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If we have experienced that what Jesus says is “all true,” it is easy to leave every other teacher for Him.

To love, Christians must do as God does: not expect to be loved, but love “first.”

The first quality of Christian love is to love everyone.

Using language that is quite familiar today, we can say that love knows “no form of discrimination.”

Saint Thérèse and the followers of the little way seem to perpetuate the words: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the Kingdom of Heaven.” (Mt 18:3).

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