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336Letter Nr. 58Rome, March 5, 1840[To Madame unknown]Madame and beloved sister in J. Ch.Thanks, eternal thanks for your few lines of charitable friendship. Butdo you know? Divine friendship or the grace which raises up, regenerates andleads to salvation is wise, accommodates itself to our reality, to our weakness,and is given only as needed to raise up, regenerate, and lead to salvation.It overflows. It troubles us and exposes us to danger. We must groanwith the groans of the saints, flooded with torrents of the infinite love; whenthis love (separated and not limited by infinite wisdom) wished to be given tothem in his infinite [wisdom], their life then becomes impossible to live.Very well, they endure and are then necessarily very troubled and readyto lose their lives. Well [...](MSS 8598, p. 14, CRR)