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It is not a matter of thinking a great deal but of loving a great deal, so do whatever arouses you most to love.

Teresa of Avila

There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
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Answer Prayer Tears
Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
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Body Care Desire Need Ourselves
To have courage for whatever comes in life – everything lies in that.
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Courage Life Lying
All things pass; Patience attains all it strives for.
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Patience Strive
It constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler.
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Constant Fall God Growth Humble Soul
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
Truth suffers, but never dies.
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Death One Liner Suffering Truth
Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
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Act Love Need Prayer Sick Willing
But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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Fact Slow Yourself
In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.
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Crystal God Grace Life Man Rise River State Tree Water
Love turns work into rest.
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Love One Liner Work
May I not come before You with empty hands, since we are rewarded according to our deeds.
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Empty Hands Ourselves Reward
Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer.
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Blessing Purpose Suffering World
If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!
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Friendship Way Wonderful Yourself
Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.
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Thinking Virtue Yourself
You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
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Compliment God Greatness Himself Pau

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