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When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God.

Teresa of Avila

Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.
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God Settle Solitude Yourself
We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.
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God Greatness Hard Time Struggle Walk
But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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Fact Slow Yourself
Christ has no body now but mine. He prays in me, works in me, looks through my eyes, speaks through my words, works through my hands, walks with my feet and loves with my heart.
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Body God Hands Heart Love Myself Prayer Walk Work
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
If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
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Greatness Love Perfection Practice
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
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
One always goes on as one begins.
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Beginning Oneself
After you die, you wear what you are.
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Character Clothes Death Deep Yourself
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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Act Kindness Soul
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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Forgiveness Himself Injury Present
Those who in fact risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all.
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Fact God Lost Risk
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
Pain is never permanent.
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One Liner Pain

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