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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.

Teresa of Avila

God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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God Health Obedience 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
Suffering is a great favor. Remember that everything soon comes to an end . . . and take courage. Think of how our gain is eternal.
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Favor Forever Greatness Ourselves Remember Suffering Thinking
Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All things pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for.
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Change God Patience Strive
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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Gentle Hard Self Love Yourself
Don’t imagine that, if you had a great deal of time, you would spend more of it in prayer. Get rid of that idea; it is no hindrance to prayer to spend your time well.
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Deal Greatness Imagination Prayer Time Yourself
Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
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God Himself Satisfaction
It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
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Alone Love Worth
Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
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Faith God Inspirational Place Trust Yourself
If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.
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Carry Perfection Reason Seek Understand Yourself
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
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
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
Strive to close the eyes of the body and open those of the soul and look into your own heart.
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Body Eyes Heart Open Soul
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
From moment to moment one can bear much.
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Moments Oneself

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