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Let nothing disturb thee, let nothing affright thee. All things are passing. Patience obtains all things. He who has God has everything – God alone suffices.

Teresa of Avila

May God protect me from gloomy saints.
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God Protection Sadness
It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.
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Dangerous Ourselves Satisfaction
However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.
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Enough God Religious Soft Speak
Let nothing disturb thee, let nothing affright thee. All things are passing. Patience obtains all things. He who has God has everything – God alone suffices.
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Disturb Enough God Himself Patience
Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
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Comfortable Life Night
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
The important thing is not to think much but to love much; do, then, whatever most arouses you to love.
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Important Love Yourself
After you die, you wear what you are.
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Character Clothes Death Deep Yourself
In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.
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Crystal God Grace Life Man Rise River State Tree Water
Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.
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Act Love Need Prayer Word
God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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God Health Obedience Yourself
May I not come before You with empty hands, since we are rewarded according to our deeds.
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Empty Hands Ourselves Reward
Consider seriously how quickly people change, and how little trust is to be had in them; and hold fast to God, Who does not change.
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Change Hold People Quick Serious
One always goes on as one begins.
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Beginning Oneself
Any real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction.
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Direction Happiness Move Reality Right
I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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Castle Diamond Heaven Home Myself Soul Thinking

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