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    St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.
    Malcolm Muggeridge (1903–1990)

    Without our suffering, our work would just be social work, very good and helpful, but it would not be the work of Jesus Christ, not part of the Redemption.... All the desolation of the poor people, not only their material poverty, but their spiritual destitution, must be redeemed. And we must share it, for only by being one with them can we redeem them by bringing God into their lives and bringing them to God.
    —Mother Teresa (b. 1910)

    When first we faced, and touching showed
    How well we knew the early moves ...
    Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.
    Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)