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What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!

Teresa of Avila

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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Body Discover Material Mistake Yourself
What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!
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Company God Goodness Greatness People Place
No one should think or say anything of another which he would not wish thought or said of himself.
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Himself Talk Thinking Voice
If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!
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Friendship Way Wonderful Yourself
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
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
The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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Feeling God Journey
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
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
For pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.
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Pity Start Trouble Way
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
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
From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
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Deliever Devotion Face God Goodness
Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
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Comfortable Life Night
What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.
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Hope Ourselves Peace Philosophy
Always think of yourself as everyone’s servant; look for Christ Our Lord in everyone and you will then have respect and reverence for them all.
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God Respect Servant Thinking Yourself
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
Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
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God Himself Satisfaction
It is not a matter of thinking a great deal but of loving a great deal, so do whatever arouses you most to love.
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Deal Greatness Love Thinking Yourself
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
The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
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God Life Spirit
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
You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
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Compliment God Greatness Himself Pau
If you fall sometimes, you must not be discouraged.
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Encouragement Fall Hope Yourself
May God protect me from gloomy saints.
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God Protection Sadness
The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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Fruit Run Tree Water
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

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