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All things pass; Patience attains all it strives for.

Teresa of Avila

We may speak of love and humility as the true flowers of spiritual growth; and they give off a wonderful scent, which benefits all those who come near.
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Flower Growth Humility Love Spiritual Talk True
The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
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God Life Spirit
Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life. . . . If you do this, there will be many things about which you care nothing.
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Care Death Remember Soul Yourself
Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost.
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Humility Lost Work
The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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Feeling God Journey
Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
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God Himself Satisfaction
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
Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.
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Castle Remember Value Worth
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
Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.
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Thinking Virtue Yourself
Happy the heart where love has come to birth.
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Born Happiness Love
He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
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God Himself Satisfaction
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
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
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
How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!
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Poor Prediction Wisdom

All things pass; Patience attains all it strives for.

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