"When a certain anxious person, who oftentimes wavered between hope and fear, once overcome with sadness, threw himself upon the ground in prayer, before one of the altars in the Church and thinking these things in his mind, said 'Oh, if only I knew how to persevere,' that very instant he heard within him, this heavenly answer: 'And if thou didst know this, what would thou do? Do now what thou would do, and you will be perfectly secure."
Time and again it seems true, the quickest way to acquire a virtue is to act as if you have already got it. Then, over time, it will become more and more natural, until it becomes second nature, and you find that you have indeed acquired the virtue. It is no longer an act, the play has become real life.
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