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“Herein lies one of the mysteries that no doubt we will understand in heaven and that will be the source of our unending admiration.... How good God is!... How He apportions our trials according to the strength that He gives us. Never, as I have just said, would I have been able to stand even the thought of the bitter pains that the future held in store for me. ...”

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Book:Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux
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