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There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them.

Teresa of Avila

He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
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God Himself Satisfaction
God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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God Health Obedience Yourself
All times are dangerous times.
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Dangerous One Liner Time
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
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
From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
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Deliever Devotion Face God Goodness
True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.
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Growth Love Rejection Soul Tenderness True
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
The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
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God Life Spirit
May God protect me from gloomy saints.
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God Protection Sadness
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
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
But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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Fact Slow Yourself
From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.
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Bad Heaven Hotel Life Misery Night
Love draws forth love.
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Love One Liner

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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