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To have courage for whatever comes in life – everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila

How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.
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Friendship Interest Oneself Respect
Christ moves along the pots and pans.
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God Move
Everything seems to me to pass so quickly that we must concentrate on how to die rather than on how to live. How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross with Christ.
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Death Live Oneself Quick
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
All the troubles of the Church, all the evils in the world, flow from this source: that men do not by clear and sound knowledge and serious consideration penetrate into the truths of Sacred Scripture.
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Evil Flow Knowledge Man Serious Trouble Truth World
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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Act Kindness Soul
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
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Answer Prayer Tears
May God protect me from gloomy saints.
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God Protection Sadness
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
The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him.
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Custom God Himself Life Love Prayer
It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not always be the same.
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Freedom Ourselves Sin True
We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.
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God Greatness Hard Time Struggle Walk
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
Truth suffers, but never dies.
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Death One Liner Suffering Truth
Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.
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God Settle Solitude Yourself
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

To have courage for whatever comes in life – everything lies in that.

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