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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

Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life. . . . If you do this, there will be many things about which you care nothing.
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Care Death Remember Soul 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
To have courage for whatever comes in life – everything lies in that.
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Courage Life Lying
Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
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Conversation Friendship Love Oneself Prayer
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
The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.
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God Oneself Simplicity
If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!
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Friendship Way Wonderful Yourself
Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.
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Afraid Death Live Way
You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
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Compliment God Greatness Himself Pau
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
Christ does not force our will, He only takes what we give Him. But He does not give Himself entirely until He sees that we yield ourselves entirely to Him.
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Force God Himself Ourselves Willing
How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!
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Poor Prediction Wisdom
All things pass; Patience attains all it strives for.
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Patience Strive
The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
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God Life Spirit
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
Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
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Comfortable Life Night

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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