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

— Chiara Lubich

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Pain is a gift that God gives to His creatures.

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

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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Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

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