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Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.

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
Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life. . . . If you do this, there will be many things about which you care nothing.
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Care Death Remember Soul Yourself
We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness we realize our own littleness; His purity shows us our foulness; and by meditating upon His humility we find how very far we are from being humble.
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Far Greatness Humble Learning Ourselves Purity
Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
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God Himself Satisfaction
Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
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Paralyze People Practice Prayer Soul
The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
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God Life Spirit
For pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.
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Pity Start Trouble Way
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
Do you know when people really become spiritual? It is when they become the slaves of God and are branded with His sign, which is the sign of the Cross, in token that they have given Him their freedom.
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Brand Freedom God Himself People Slave Spiritual
When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God.
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Acceptance Best God Praise
Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
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Comfortable Life Night
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
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
Let there be no disappointment when obedience keeps you busy in outward tasks. If it sends you to the kitchen, remember that the Lord walks among the pots and pans.
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Disappoint Obedience Remember Yourself
Don’t imagine that, if you had a great deal of time, you would spend more of it in prayer. Get rid of that idea; it is no hindrance to prayer to spend your time well.
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Deal Greatness Imagination Prayer Time Yourself
Pain is never permanent.
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One Liner Pain

Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.

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