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"Very pleasing to Me, dearest daughter, is the
willing desire to bear every pain and fatigue, even
unto death, for the salvation of souls, for the more
the soul endures, the more she shows that she loves
Me; loving Me she comes to know more of My truth, and
the more she knows, the more pain and intolerable
grief she feels at the offenses committed against Me.
"You asked Me to sustain you, and to punish the
faults of others in you, and you did not remark that
you were really asking for love, light, and knowledge
of the truth, since I have already told you that, by
the increase of love, grows grief and pain, wherefore
he that grows in love grows in grief.
"Therefore, I say to you all, that you should ask,
and it will be given you, for I deny nothing to him
who asks of Me in truth. Consider that the love of
divine charity is so closely joined in the soul with
perfect patience, that neither can leave the soul
without the other. For this reason (if the soul elect
to love Me) she should elect to endure pains for Me
in whatever mode or circumstance I may send them to
her. Patience cannot be proved in any other way than
by suffering, and patience is united with love as has
been said.
"Therefore bear yourselves with manly courage, for,
unless you do so, you will not prove yourselves to be
spouses of My Truth, and faithful children, nor of
the company of those who relish the taste of My
honor, and the salvation of souls."
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