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For pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.

Teresa of Avila

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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Friendship God Greatness Human Law Willing
Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All things pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for.
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Change God Patience Strive
Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.
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Act Love Need Prayer Word
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
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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Experience Goodness Reach
The important thing is not to think much but to love much; do, then, whatever most arouses you to love.
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Important Love Yourself
To have courage for whatever comes in life – everything lies in that.
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Courage Life Lying
God is even kinder than you think.
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God Kindness Thinking Yourself
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
It is not a matter of thinking a great deal but of loving a great deal, so do whatever arouses you most to love.
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Deal Greatness Love Thinking Yourself
We need no wings to go in search of Him, but have only to look upon Him present within us.
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Himself Need Search Wings
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
Happy the heart where love has come to birth.
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Born Happiness Love
He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
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God Himself Satisfaction
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

For pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.

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