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Those who in fact risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all.

Teresa of Avila

There is no affliction, trial, or labor difficult to endure, when we consider the torments and sufferings which Our Lord Jesus Christ endured for us.
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Difficult Endurance God Ourselves Suffering
It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
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Alone Love Worth
Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.
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Friendship God Himself Mental Prayer Secret
All the troubles of the Church, all the evils in the world, flow from this source: that men do not by clear and sound knowledge and serious consideration penetrate into the truths of Sacred Scripture.
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Evil Flow Knowledge Man Serious Trouble Truth World
Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true.
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Affirmation True
Happy the heart where love has come to birth.
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Born Happiness Love
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
All times are dangerous times.
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Dangerous One Liner Time
All things pass; Patience attains all it strives for.
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Patience Strive
It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not always be the same.
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Freedom Ourselves Sin True
From moment to moment one can bear much.
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Moments Oneself
From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.
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Bad Heaven Hotel Life Misery Night
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
Don’t be curious of matters that don’t concern you; never speak of them, and don’t ask about them.
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Curiosity Talk Yourself
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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Far Greatness Humble Learning Ourselves Purity
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

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