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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.

Teresa of Avila

Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer.
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Blessing Purpose Suffering World
Be kind to all and severe to thyself.
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Hard Kind Yourself
Always think of yourself as everyone’s servant; look for Christ Our Lord in everyone and you will then have respect and reverence for them all.
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God Respect Servant Thinking Yourself
The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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Fruit Run Tree Water
Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.
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See Sight Yourself
Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
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God Himself Satisfaction
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
Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
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Body Care Desire Need Ourselves
Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith. Patient endurance attends to all things.
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Endurance Gratitude Mindset Patience Serious Suffering
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
Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
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Faith God Inspirational Place Trust Yourself
Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.
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Thinking Virtue Yourself
It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
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Alone Love Worth
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
Oh, my Lord! How true it is that whoever works for you is paid in troubles! And what a precious price to those who love you if we understand its value.
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Pay Precious Price Trouble True Understand Value Work
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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Experience Goodness Reach

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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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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