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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

Don’t let your sins turn into bad habits.
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Bad Habit Sin Yourself
Those who in fact risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all.
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Fact God Lost Risk
Pain is never permanent.
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One Liner Pain
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
It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
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Alone Love Worth
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
Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true.
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Affirmation True
It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.
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Dangerous Ourselves Satisfaction
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
Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
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God Himself Satisfaction
When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God.
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Acceptance Best God Praise
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
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
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
If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!
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Friendship Way Wonderful Yourself
If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
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Greatness Love Perfection Practice

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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