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Suffering is the school of humility

  Letter to Rose Bourgeois

(Letters of Spiritual Direction, Suffering is the school of humility)

You ask me to write you something concerning peace of soul and humility: I would do so gladly, my very dear daughter, but I don’t know if I can in the little time I have for writing to you.  However, here are three or four words on the subject, dearest daughter.  It is God who inspired you to ask me at one and the same time about peace of soul and humility, for in truth we cannot have the one without the other.

(Read further in Letter to Rose Bourgeois, Letters of Spiritual Direction)

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