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True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Teresa of Avila

Don’t let your sins turn into bad habits.
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Bad Habit Sin Yourself
There is no affliction, trial, or labor difficult to endure, when we consider the torments and sufferings which Our Lord Jesus Christ endured for us.
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Difficult Endurance God Ourselves Suffering
Don’t imagine that, if you had a great deal of time, you would spend more of it in prayer. Get rid of that idea; it is no hindrance to prayer to spend your time well.
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Deal Greatness Imagination Prayer Time Yourself
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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Gentle Hard Self 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
Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true.
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Affirmation True
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
All things pass; Patience attains all it strives for.
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Patience Strive
If we learn to love the earth, we will find labyrinths, gardens, fountains and precious jewels! A whole new world will open itself to us. We will discover what it means to be truly alive.
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Alive Discover Earth Learning Love Open Search True
Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.
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Friendship God Himself Mental Prayer Secret
Be kind to all and severe to thyself.
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Hard Kind Yourself
Let there be no disappointment when obedience keeps you busy in outward tasks. If it sends you to the kitchen, remember that the Lord walks among the pots and pans.
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Disappoint Obedience Remember Yourself
There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.
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Act Humility Knowledge Study Value World
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
Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.
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Castle Remember Value Worth
To want to become angels while we are still on earth is ridiculous.
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Angel Earth Weird
Oh, my Lord! How true it is that whoever works for you is paid in troubles! And what a precious price to those who love you if we understand its value.
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Pay Precious Price Trouble True Understand Value Work
People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
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Interest Pay People Reason World
How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.
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Friendship Interest Oneself Respect
About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don’t go by one text only.
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Church Silence Women
Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
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Conversation Friendship Love Oneself Prayer
However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.
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Enough God Religious Soft Speak
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
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Answer Prayer Tears
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
God is even kinder than you think.
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God Kindness Thinking Yourself
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
From moment to moment one can bear much.
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Moments Oneself

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