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Consider seriously how quickly people change, and how little trust is to be had in them; and hold fast to God, Who does not change.

Teresa of Avila

All blessings come to us through our Lord. He will teach us, for in beholding His life we find that He is the best example.
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Best Blessing God Himself Life Teaching
From moment to moment one can bear much.
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Moments Oneself
Do you know when people really become spiritual? It is when they become the slaves of God and are branded with His sign, which is the sign of the Cross, in token that they have given Him their freedom.
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Brand Freedom God Himself People Slave Spiritual
But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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Fact Slow Yourself
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
Pain is never permanent.
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One Liner Pain
Truth suffers, but never dies.
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Death One Liner Suffering Truth
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
Christ moves along the pots and pans.
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God Move
This body of ours has one fault: the more you indulge it, the more things it discovers to be essential to it. It is extraordinary how it likes being indulged.
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Body Discover Material Mistake Yourself
God is even kinder than you think.
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God Kindness Thinking Yourself
Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.
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Friendship God Himself Mental Prayer Secret
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
Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.
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Thinking Virtue 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
The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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Fruit Run Tree Water

Consider seriously how quickly people change, and how little trust is to be had in them; and hold fast to God, Who does not change.

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