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 AVILAYou pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
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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.
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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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But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
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You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
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If you fall sometimes, you must not be discouraged.
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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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If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.
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Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
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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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From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.
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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.
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It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.
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I am afraid that if we begin to put our trust in human help, some of our Divine help will fail us.
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After you die, you wear what you are.
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