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From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.

Teresa of Avila

It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.
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Friendship God Greatness Human Law Willing
Those who in fact risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all.
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Fact God Lost Risk
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
May God protect me from gloomy saints.
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God Protection Sadness
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
Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.
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Afraid Death Live Way
What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.
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Hope Ourselves Peace Philosophy
Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true.
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Affirmation True
No one should think or say anything of another which he would not wish thought or said of himself.
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Himself Talk Thinking Voice
People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
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Interest Pay People Reason World
To want to become angels while we are still on earth is ridiculous.
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Angel Earth Weird
For pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.
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Pity Start Trouble Way
Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.
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Thinking Virtue Yourself
The important thing is not to think much but to love much; do, then, whatever most arouses you to love.
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Important Love Yourself
Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer.
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Blessing Purpose Suffering World
However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.
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Enough God Religious Soft Speak
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
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 life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
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God Life Spirit
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
What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!
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Company God Goodness Greatness People Place
You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
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Compliment God Greatness Himself Pau
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
Pain is never permanent.
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One Liner Pain
Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All things pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for.
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Change God Patience Strive
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
It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.
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Dangerous Ourselves Satisfaction

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