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But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.

Teresa of Avila

If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!
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Friendship Way Wonderful Yourself
Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
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Faith God Inspirational Place Trust Yourself
Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
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Paralyze People Practice Prayer Soul
The saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions, because in forgiving them they had something to present to God when they prayed to Him.
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Forgiveness Himself Injury Present
Christ does not force our will, He only takes what we give Him. But He does not give Himself entirely until He sees that we yield ourselves entirely to Him.
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Force God Himself Ourselves Willing
True perfection consists in the love of God and our neighbour, and the better we keep both these commandments, the more perfect we shall be.
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Better Command Existence God Ourselves Perfection True
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
It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.
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Dangerous Ourselves Satisfaction
Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.
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Castle Remember Value Worth
We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness we realize our own littleness; His purity shows us our foulness; and by meditating upon His humility we find how very far we are from being humble.
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Far Greatness Humble Learning Ourselves Purity
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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Experience Goodness Reach
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
Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.
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See Sight Yourself
Do you know when people really become spiritual? It is when they become the slaves of God and are branded with His sign, which is the sign of the Cross, in token that they have given Him their freedom.
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Brand Freedom God Himself People Slave Spiritual
It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
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Different Love Nature Way Work
All times are dangerous times.
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Dangerous One Liner Time

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