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Be kind to all and severe to thyself.

Teresa of Avila

Let nothing disturb you, / Nothing dismay you; / All things are passing: / God never changes.
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Change Disturb God
Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer.
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Blessing Purpose Suffering World
Love turns work into rest.
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Love One Liner Work
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
Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.
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Body Hands Lame Prayer Soul
How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!
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Poor Prediction Wisdom
Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true.
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Affirmation True
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 is no affliction, trial, or labor difficult to endure, when we consider the torments and sufferings which Our Lord Jesus Christ endured for us.
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Difficult Endurance God Ourselves Suffering
From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
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Deliever Devotion Face God Goodness
If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.
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Carry Perfection Reason Seek Understand Yourself
The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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Fruit Run Tree Water
We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness we realize our own littleness; His purity shows us our foulness; and by meditating upon His humility we find how very far we are from being humble.
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Far Greatness Humble Learning Ourselves Purity
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
Christ moves along the pots and pans.
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God Move
Teach by works more than words.
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Teaching Word Work

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