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Zeal for the
salvation of souls is of so great a merit before God, that to give up all our
goods to the poor, or to spend our whole life in the exercises of all sorts of
austerities cannot equal the merit of it. There is no service more agreeable to
God than this one. To employ one's life in this blessed labor is more pleasing
to the Divine Majesty than to suffer martyrdom. Would you not feel happy if you
could spend large sums of money in corporal works of mercy? But know that he
who labors for the salvation of souls does far more; nay, the zeal of souls is
of far greater merit before God…than the working of miracles.
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