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

Teresa of Avila

People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
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Interest Pay People Reason World
Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.
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Afraid Death Live Way
However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.
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Enough God Religious Soft Speak
All the troubles of the Church, all the evils in the world, flow from this source: that men do not by clear and sound knowledge and serious consideration penetrate into the truths of Sacred Scripture.
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Evil Flow Knowledge Man Serious Trouble Truth World
Love draws forth love.
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Love One Liner
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
Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.
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See Sight Yourself
I am afraid that if we begin to put our trust in human help, some of our Divine help will fail us.
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Afraid Beginning Failure Human Myself Trust
What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.
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Hope Ourselves Peace Philosophy
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
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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Experience Goodness Reach
It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
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Different Love Nature Way Work
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
I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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Castle Diamond Heaven Home Myself Soul Thinking
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
From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
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Deliever Devotion Face God Goodness

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