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It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.

Teresa of Avila

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
Each of us has a soul, but we forget to value it. We don’t remember that we are creatures made in the image of God. We don’t understand the great secrets hidden inside of us.
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Forget Greatness Hide Image Remember Secret Soul Understand Value
What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!
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Company God Goodness Greatness People Place
Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
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Alone Light Love Value Wisdom
The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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Fruit Run Tree Water
Pain is never permanent.
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One Liner Pain
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
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
To have courage for whatever comes in life – everything lies in that.
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Courage Life Lying
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
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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Experience Goodness Reach
If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
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Greatness Love Perfection Practice
However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.
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Enough God Religious Soft Speak
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
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
If you fall sometimes, you must not be discouraged.
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Encouragement Fall Hope Yourself

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