Think not, my sisters, that because you must not seek to please secular persons you shall therefore want support. And as you have given up revenues, give up also all care about food -otherwise all is lost. This care leave to Him, who knows how to move all men, who is the Lord of revenues and of their possessors. God forbid this should be done; let our houses be poor and mean in every way. As for those who build large houses, they have their reasons and other pious intentions.

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Persons: Teresa of Ávila’s, John Dalton