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You will be in the world, but you will not belong to
the world, nor will the world claim any right over
you. You will find yourselves surrounded by the
wickedness of the earth, but you will keep yourselves always pure
and spotless. (Writings 355)

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Working with a pure intention, confident and
persevering prayer, complete conformity to Gods will:
such is the distinctive garb of the true ministers of the
Lord. (Letters 41)

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This, then, is our mission: to spread the knowledge, the
love, and the observance of the teaching of Jesus Christ.
(Letters 25)

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Are you asking my advice on books you should read? My
modest advice is this: few but good. (Letters 5)

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The effects of reading are not always experienced
immediately, and this makes us often doubt the
fruitfulness of our reading. Let us be convinced that
whatever we read with love and conviction impresses itself indelibly
within us and is never erased. (Letters 5)

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Every book we read is an atom assimilated to the mass.
Time, or rather God, brings that process to growth. (Letters
5)

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Read the lives of the saints. Try it and then you will be
able to tell me something about it. We need to rise to the
level of great models. We need to raise the pitch of our moral
diapason and to free ourselves once for all from the habit of
alternating between making resolutions and having to renew them.
(Letters 23)