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May God protect me from gloomy saints.

Teresa of Avila

Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
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Comfortable Life Night
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
Be kind to all and severe to thyself.
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Hard Kind Yourself
People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
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Interest Pay People Reason World
Don’t let your sins turn into bad habits.
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Bad Habit Sin Yourself
Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life. . . . If you do this, there will be many things about which you care nothing.
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Care Death Remember Soul Yourself
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
All blessings come to us through our Lord. He will teach us, for in beholding His life we find that He is the best example.
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Best Blessing God Himself Life Teaching
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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Act Kindness Soul
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
Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.
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Castle Remember Value Worth
Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost.
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Humility Lost Work
Let nothing disturb you, / Nothing dismay you; / All things are passing: / God never changes.
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Change Disturb God
The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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Feeling God Journey
There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them.
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Greatness Myself Poverty Sorry True
If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
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Greatness Love Perfection Practice

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