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Be kind to all and severe to thyself.

Teresa of Avila

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
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
In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.
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Crystal God Grace Life Man Rise River State Tree Water
The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
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God Life Spirit
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
Oh, my Lord! How true it is that whoever works for you is paid in troubles! And what a precious price to those who love you if we understand its value.
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Pay Precious Price Trouble True Understand Value Work
All times are dangerous times.
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Dangerous One Liner Time
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
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
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
Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.
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Act Love Need Prayer Word
For pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.
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Pity Start Trouble Way
You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
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Compliment God Greatness Himself Pau
Any real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction.
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Direction Happiness Move Reality Right
Be kind to all and severe to thyself.
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Hard Kind Yourself
Each of us has a soul, but we forget to value it. We don’t remember that we are creatures made in the image of God. We don’t understand the great secrets hidden inside of us.
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Forget Greatness Hide Image Remember Secret Soul Understand Value

Be kind to all and severe to thyself.

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