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It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.

Teresa of Avila

But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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Fact Slow Yourself
Be kind to all and severe to thyself.
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Hard Kind Yourself
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
There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.
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Act Humility Knowledge Study Value World
Truth suffers, but never dies.
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Death One Liner Suffering Truth
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
True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.
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Growth Love Rejection Soul Tenderness True
The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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Fruit Run Tree Water
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
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
Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
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Faith God Inspirational Place Trust Yourself
Pain is never permanent.
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One Liner Pain
To have courage for whatever comes in life – everything lies in that.
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Courage Life Lying
Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
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Act Love Need Prayer Sick Willing
How often I failed in my duty to God, because I was not leaning on the strong pillar of prayer.
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Failure God Myself Prayer Responsibility
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

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