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I am afraid that if we begin to put our trust in human help, some of our Divine help will fail us.

Teresa of Avila

Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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Gentle Hard Self Love Yourself
Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
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Conversation Friendship Love Oneself Prayer
Every part of the journey is of importance to the whole.
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Importance Journey Spiritual
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
For pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.
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Pity Start Trouble Way
One always goes on as one begins.
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Beginning Oneself
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
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
Desire to see God, be fearful of losing Him, and find joy in everything that can lead to Him. If you act in this way, you will always live in great peace.
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Act Desire Fear God Greatness Leadership Live Lose See Yourself
Always think of yourself as everyone’s servant; look for Christ Our Lord in everyone and you will then have respect and reverence for them all.
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God Respect Servant Thinking Yourself
Christ moves along the pots and pans.
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God Move
I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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Castle Diamond Heaven Home Myself Soul Thinking
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
From moment to moment one can bear much.
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Moments Oneself
All the troubles of the Church, all the evils in the world, flow from this source: that men do not by clear and sound knowledge and serious consideration penetrate into the truths of Sacred Scripture.
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Evil Flow Knowledge Man Serious Trouble Truth World
All things pass; Patience attains all it strives for.
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Patience Strive
Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
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God Himself Satisfaction
God is even kinder than you think.
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God Kindness Thinking Yourself
Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.
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Castle Remember Value Worth
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
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
Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
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Paralyze People Practice Prayer Soul
Strive to close the eyes of the body and open those of the soul and look into your own heart.
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Body Eyes Heart Open Soul
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
Don’t be curious of matters that don’t concern you; never speak of them, and don’t ask about them.
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Curiosity Talk Yourself
Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.
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Body Hands Lame Prayer Soul

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