Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
TERESA OF AVILAWhen we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God.
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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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All times are dangerous times.
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Don’t be curious of matters that don’t concern you; never speak of them, and don’t ask about them.
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This body of ours has one fault: the more you indulge it, the more things it discovers to be essential to it. It is extraordinary how it likes being indulged.
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There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
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It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
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You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
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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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From moment to moment one can bear much.
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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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Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.
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We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.
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Be kind to all and severe to thyself.
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However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.
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It is impossible for human tongue to exaggerate the riches which a vision from God brings to the soul: it even bestows health and refreshment on the body.
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