You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
TERESA OF AVILASuffering 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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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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Do you know when people really become spiritual? It is when they become the slaves of God and are branded with His sign, which is the sign of the Cross, in token that they have given Him their freedom.
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From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.
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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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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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From moment to moment one can bear much.
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Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.
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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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To have courage for whatever comes in life – everything lies in that.
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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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Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
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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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Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.
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There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
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We need no wings to go in search of Him, but have only to look upon Him present within us.
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