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It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.

Teresa of Avila

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
Pain is never permanent.
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One Liner Pain
Be kind to all and severe to thyself.
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Hard Kind Yourself
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
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
If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
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Greatness Love Perfection Practice
To have courage for whatever comes in life – everything lies in that.
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Courage Life Lying
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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Gentle Hard Self Love Yourself
Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.
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Accomplishment Attention Father Heart Ourselves Repeat Time
Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.
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Thinking Virtue Yourself
It is impossible for human tongue to exaggerate the riches which a vision from God brings to the soul: it even bestows health and refreshment on the body.
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Body Human Impossible Refresh Rich Vision
We need no wings to go in search of Him, but have only to look upon Him present within us.
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Himself Need Search Wings
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
Teach by works more than words.
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Teaching Word Work
Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people’s, if we are always criticizing trivial actions – which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
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Action Disturb Ignorance Lose Motivational Ourselves Peace Soul Wrong
You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
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Compliment God Greatness Himself Pau

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