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How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.

Teresa of Avila

Consider seriously how quickly people change, and how little trust is to be had in them; and hold fast to God, Who does not change.
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Change Hold People Quick Serious
It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
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Alone Love Worth
It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.
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Dangerous Ourselves Satisfaction
Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
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Paralyze People Practice Prayer Soul
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
Let nothing disturb you, / Nothing dismay you; / All things are passing: / God never changes.
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Change Disturb God
But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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Fact Slow Yourself
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
The saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions, because in forgiving them they had something to present to God when they prayed to Him.
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Forgiveness Himself Injury Present
We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.
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God Greatness Hard Time Struggle Walk
Love draws forth love.
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Love One Liner
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
The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
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God Life Spirit
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
It is impossible for human tongue to exaggerate the riches which a vision from God brings to the soul: it even bestows health and refreshment on the body.
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Body Human Impossible Refresh Rich Vision
For pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.
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Pity Start Trouble Way

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