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Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila

It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.
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Beginning Fear Greatness Important Ourselves Thinking
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
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Answer Prayer Tears
Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
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God Himself Satisfaction
Happy the heart where love has come to birth.
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Born Happiness Love
Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.
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Accomplishment Attention Father Heart Ourselves Repeat Time
Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost.
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Humility Lost Work
Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life. . . . If you do this, there will be many things about which you care nothing.
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Care Death Remember Soul Yourself
To want to become angels while we are still on earth is ridiculous.
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Angel Earth Weird
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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Experience Goodness Reach
God is even kinder than you think.
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God Kindness Thinking Yourself
Everything seems to me to pass so quickly that we must concentrate on how to die rather than on how to live. How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross with Christ.
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Death Live Oneself Quick
Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true.
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Affirmation True
Every part of the journey is of importance to the whole.
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Importance Journey Spiritual
I am afraid that if we begin to put our trust in human help, some of our Divine help will fail us.
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Afraid Beginning Failure Human Myself Trust
Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
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Alone Light Love Value Wisdom
We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.
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God Greatness Hard Time Struggle Walk

Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.

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