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The saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions, because in forgiving them they had something to present to God when they prayed to Him.

Teresa of Avila

Let nothing disturb thee, let nothing affright thee. All things are passing. Patience obtains all things. He who has God has everything – God alone suffices.
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Disturb Enough God Himself Patience
True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.
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Growth Love Rejection Soul Tenderness True
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
However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.
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Enough God Religious Soft Speak
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
Be kind to all and severe to thyself.
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Hard Kind Yourself
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
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
All times are dangerous times.
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Dangerous One Liner Time
Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
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God Himself Satisfaction
Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
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Conversation Friendship Love Oneself Prayer
From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
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Deliever Devotion Face God Goodness
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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Act Kindness Soul
Union is as if in a room there were two large windows through which the light streamed in; it enters in different places but it all becomes one.
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Different Oneself Place Unity Window
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

The saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions, because in forgiving them they had something to present to God when they prayed to Him.

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The saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions, because in forgiving them they had something to present to God when they prayed to Him.

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