With Jesus
Renunciation will be a privilege for you.
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Suffering will glorify your life.
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Tests will expand your powers.
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Work will be as a mark of confidence along your pathway.
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Sacrifice will sublimate your impulses.
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Bodily illness will be a beneficial remedy for your soul.
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Slander will honour your task.
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Persecution will be a motive for you to bless many.
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Anguish will purify your hopes.
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Evil will summon your spirit to the practice of goodness.
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Hate will challenge your heart to manifestations of love.
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The Earth, with all its contrasts and unceasing renewals represents a blessed school of individual perfection in whose purifying lessons you will leave selfishness crushed forever.
XAVIER, Francisco Cândido. Christian Agenda. By the Spirit André Luiz. Great Britain: Allan Kardec Publishing Ltd, 1998. Chapter 39.