“To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.”
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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.
The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.