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

Teresa of Avila

Those who in fact risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all.
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Fact God Lost Risk
Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.
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Thinking Virtue Yourself
There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.
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Act Humility Knowledge Study Value World
Christ has no body now but mine. He prays in me, works in me, looks through my eyes, speaks through my words, works through my hands, walks with my feet and loves with my heart.
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Body God Hands Heart Love Myself Prayer Walk Work
Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.
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Act Love Need Prayer Word
The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.
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God Oneself Simplicity
God deliver me from people who are so spiritual that they want to turn everything into perfect contemplation, come what may.
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God Myself People Perfection Spiritual
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
True perfection consists in the love of God and our neighbour, and the better we keep both these commandments, the more perfect we shall be.
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Better Command Existence God Ourselves Perfection True
Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
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Paralyze People Practice Prayer Soul
In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.
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Earth Heaven Hotel Light Night Serious Suffering Worst
It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
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Different Love Nature Way Work
What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.
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Hope Ourselves Peace Philosophy
I am afraid that if we begin to put our trust in human help, some of our Divine help will fail us.
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Afraid Beginning Failure Human Myself Trust
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
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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To have courage for whatever comes in life – everything lies in that.

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