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All things pass; Patience attains all it strives for.

Teresa of Avila

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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Endurance Gratitude Mindset Patience Serious Suffering
After you die, you wear what you are.
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Character Clothes Death Deep Yourself
God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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God Health Obedience Yourself
Consider seriously how quickly people change, and how little trust is to be had in them; and hold fast to God, Who does not change.
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Change Hold People Quick Serious
One always goes on as one begins.
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Beginning Oneself
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
If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps and strengthens us and never abandons us. He is a true friend.
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Abandonment Friendship God Leadership True
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
Let nothing disturb you, / Nothing dismay you; / All things are passing: / God never changes.
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Change Disturb God
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
Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people’s, if we are always criticizing trivial actions – which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
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Action Disturb Ignorance Lose Motivational Ourselves Peace Soul Wrong
For pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.
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Pity Start Trouble Way
Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.
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Accomplishment Attention Father Heart Ourselves Repeat Time
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
It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
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Alone Love Worth

All things pass; Patience attains all it strives for.

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