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Suffering is a great favor. Remember that everything soon comes to an end . . . and take courage. Think of how our gain is eternal.

Teresa of Avila

There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
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Answer Prayer Tears
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
Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost.
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Humility Lost Work
I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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Castle Diamond Heaven Home Myself Soul Thinking
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
What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.
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Hope Ourselves Peace Philosophy
Truth suffers, but never dies.
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Death One Liner Suffering Truth
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
Christ moves along the pots and pans.
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God Move
Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
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Comfortable Life Night
May I not come before You with empty hands, since we are rewarded according to our deeds.
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Empty Hands Ourselves Reward
Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true.
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Affirmation True
To want to become angels while we are still on earth is ridiculous.
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Angel Earth Weird
From moment to moment one can bear much.
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Moments Oneself
All blessings come to us through our Lord. He will teach us, for in beholding His life we find that He is the best example.
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Best Blessing God Himself Life Teaching
Christ has no body now but mine. He prays in me, works in me, looks through my eyes, speaks through my words, works through my hands, walks with my feet and loves with my heart.
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Body God Hands Heart Love Myself Prayer Walk Work

Suffering is a great favor. Remember that everything soon comes to an end . . . and take courage. Think of how our gain is eternal.

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