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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

Don’t let your sins turn into bad habits.
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Bad Habit Sin Yourself
Let nothing disturb thee, let nothing affright thee. All things are passing. Patience obtains all things. He who has God has everything – God alone suffices.
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Disturb Enough God Himself Patience
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
But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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Fact Slow Yourself
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
Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
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Paralyze People Practice Prayer Soul
Be kind to all and severe to thyself.
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Hard Kind Yourself
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
In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.
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Earth Heaven Hotel Light Night Serious Suffering Worst
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
How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!
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Poor Prediction Wisdom
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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Experience Goodness Reach
All times are dangerous times.
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Dangerous One Liner Time
Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true.
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Affirmation True
Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people’s, if we are always criticizing trivial actions – which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
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Action Disturb Ignorance Lose Motivational Ourselves Peace Soul Wrong
God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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God Health Obedience Yourself

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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