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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

Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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Act Kindness Soul
Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.
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Thinking Virtue Yourself
Desire to see God, be fearful of losing Him, and find joy in everything that can lead to Him. If you act in this way, you will always live in great peace.
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Act Desire Fear God Greatness Leadership Live Lose See Yourself
Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
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Faith God Inspirational Place Trust Yourself
Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer.
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Blessing Purpose Suffering World
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
You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
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Compliment God Greatness Himself Pau
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
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
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Answer Prayer Tears
Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
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Comfortable Life Night
Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
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God Himself Satisfaction
Any real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction.
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Direction Happiness Move Reality Right
True perfection consists in the love of God and our neighbour, and the better we keep both these commandments, the more perfect we shall be.
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Better Command Existence God Ourselves Perfection True
Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.
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See Sight 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

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

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