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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

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.
TERESA OF AVILA

Death Live Oneself Quick
If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps and strengthens us and never abandons us. He is a true friend.
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Abandonment Friendship God Leadership True
About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don’t go by one text only.
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Church Silence Women
How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.
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Friendship Interest Oneself Respect
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
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Answer Prayer Tears
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
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
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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Experience Goodness Reach
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
It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not always be the same.
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Freedom Ourselves Sin True
However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.
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Enough God Religious Soft Speak
Don’t be curious of matters that don’t concern you; never speak of them, and don’t ask about them.
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Curiosity Talk Yourself
What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.
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Hope Ourselves Peace Philosophy
Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.
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Thinking Virtue Yourself
Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.
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Friendship God Himself Mental Prayer Secret
People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
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Interest Pay People Reason World

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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