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

Teresa of Avila

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
If we learn to love the earth, we will find labyrinths, gardens, fountains and precious jewels! A whole new world will open itself to us. We will discover what it means to be truly alive.
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Alive Discover Earth Learning Love Open Search True
It is not a matter of thinking a great deal but of loving a great deal, so do whatever arouses you most to love.
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Deal Greatness Love Thinking Yourself
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
Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
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Faith God Inspirational Place Trust Yourself
All times are dangerous times.
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Dangerous One Liner Time
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
The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
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God Life Spirit
For pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.
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Pity Start Trouble Way
Christ moves along the pots and pans.
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God Move
How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!
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Poor Prediction Wisdom
To have courage for whatever comes in life – everything lies in that.
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Courage Life Lying
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
True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.
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Growth Love Rejection Soul Tenderness True
Strive to close the eyes of the body and open those of the soul and look into your own heart.
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Body Eyes Heart Open Soul
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 feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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Feeling God Journey
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
Christ does not force our will, He only takes what we give Him. But He does not give Himself entirely until He sees that we yield ourselves entirely to Him.
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Force God Himself Ourselves Willing
Happy the heart where love has come to birth.
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Born Happiness Love
All things pass; Patience attains all it strives for.
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Patience Strive
May God protect me from gloomy saints.
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God Protection Sadness
From moment to moment one can bear much.
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Moments Oneself
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
Don’t imagine that, if you had a great deal of time, you would spend more of it in prayer. Get rid of that idea; it is no hindrance to prayer to spend your time well.
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Deal Greatness Imagination Prayer Time Yourself
I am afraid that if we begin to put our trust in human help, some of our Divine help will fail us.
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Afraid Beginning Failure Human Myself Trust
Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true.
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Affirmation True

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