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Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All things pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for.

Teresa of Avila

Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.
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Afraid Death Live Way
All things pass; Patience attains all it strives for.
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Patience Strive
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
Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
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God Security Travel True
One always goes on as one begins.
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Beginning Oneself
For pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.
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Pity Start Trouble Way
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
God is even kinder than you think.
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God Kindness Thinking Yourself
Pain is never permanent.
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One Liner Pain
If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.
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Carry Perfection Reason Seek Understand 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
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
The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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Fruit Run Tree Water
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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Disturb Enough God Himself Patience
We may speak of love and humility as the true flowers of spiritual growth; and they give off a wonderful scent, which benefits all those who come near.
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Flower Growth Humility Love Spiritual Talk True
Love turns work into rest.
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Love One Liner Work
To want to become angels while we are still on earth is ridiculous.
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Angel Earth Weird
Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
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God Himself Satisfaction
Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
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Conversation Friendship Love Oneself Prayer
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
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Answer Prayer Tears
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
This body of ours has one fault: the more you indulge it, the more things it discovers to be essential to it. It is extraordinary how it likes being indulged.
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Body Discover Material Mistake Yourself
If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps and strengthens us and never abandons us. He is a true friend.
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Abandonment Friendship God Leadership True
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
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
God deliver me from people who are so spiritual that they want to turn everything into perfect contemplation, come what may.
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God Myself People Perfection Spiritual

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