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To want to become angels while we are still on earth is ridiculous.

Teresa of Avila

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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
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
There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them.
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Greatness Myself Poverty Sorry True
It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
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Alone Love Worth
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
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
But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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Fact Slow 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
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
Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer.
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Blessing Purpose Suffering World
All times are dangerous times.
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Dangerous One Liner Time
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
Everything seems to me to pass so quickly that we must concentrate on how to die rather than on how to live. How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross with Christ.
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Death Live Oneself Quick
Teach by works more than words.
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Teaching Word Work
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
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

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