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The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.

Teresa of Avila

To have courage for whatever comes in life – everything lies in that.
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Courage Life Lying
There is no affliction, trial, or labor difficult to endure, when we consider the torments and sufferings which Our Lord Jesus Christ endured for us.
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Difficult Endurance God Ourselves Suffering
When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God.
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Acceptance Best God Praise
All times are dangerous times.
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Dangerous One Liner Time
Be kind to all and severe to thyself.
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Hard Kind Yourself
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
It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not always be the same.
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Freedom Ourselves Sin True
We may speak of love and humility as the true flowers of spiritual growth; and they give off a wonderful scent, which benefits all those who come near.
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Flower Growth Humility Love Spiritual Talk True
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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Act Kindness Soul
People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
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Interest Pay People Reason World
This body of ours has one fault: the more you indulge it, the more things it discovers to be essential to it. It is extraordinary how it likes being indulged.
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Body Discover Material Mistake Yourself
About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don’t go by one text only.
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Church Silence Women
Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people’s, if we are always criticizing trivial actions – which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
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Action Disturb Ignorance Lose Motivational Ourselves Peace Soul Wrong
From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
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Deliever Devotion Face God Goodness
No one should think or say anything of another which he would not wish thought or said of himself.
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Himself Talk Thinking Voice
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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