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If you fall sometimes, you must not be discouraged.

Teresa of Avila

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
You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
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Compliment God Greatness Himself Pau
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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Experience Goodness Reach
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 constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler.
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Constant Fall God Growth Humble Soul
After you die, you wear what you are.
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Character Clothes Death Deep Yourself
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
Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.
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Thinking Virtue Yourself
To want to become angels while we are still on earth is ridiculous.
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Angel Earth Weird
Love turns work into rest.
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Love One Liner Work
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
For pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.
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Pity Start Trouble Way
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
To have courage for whatever comes in life – everything lies in that.
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Courage Life Lying
It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.
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Beginning Fear Greatness Important Ourselves Thinking
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

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