March 13th
Book Three, Chapter 35
That There is no Being Secure From Temptation in This Life
If you do not set your heart fixedly on Me, with a sincere will of suffering all things for My sake, you can neither sustain the heat of this warfare, nor attain to the palm of the Blessed....You must be willing, for the love of God, to suffer all things -- namely, labors and sorrows, temptations, vexations, anxieties, necessities, infirmities, injuries, detractions, reprehensions, humiliations, confusions, corrections, and contempts. These help to virtue, these prove the novice of Christ, these things weave a celestial crown.
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