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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.

Teresa of Avila

The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him.
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Custom God Himself Life Love Prayer
Love turns work into rest.
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Love One Liner Work
In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.
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Earth Heaven Hotel Light Night Serious Suffering Worst
Consider seriously how quickly people change, and how little trust is to be had in them; and hold fast to God, Who does not change.
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Change Hold People Quick Serious
Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
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Conversation Friendship Love Oneself Prayer
It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
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Alone Love Worth
Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.
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Accomplishment Attention Father Heart Ourselves Repeat Time
The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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Feeling God Journey
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
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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Experience Goodness Reach
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
The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.
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God Oneself Simplicity
How often I failed in my duty to God, because I was not leaning on the strong pillar of prayer.
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Failure God Myself Prayer Responsibility
God is even kinder than you think.
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God Kindness Thinking Yourself
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
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

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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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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