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All things pass; Patience attains all it strives for.

Teresa of Avila

It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not always be the same.
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Freedom Ourselves Sin True
About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don’t go by one text only.
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Church Silence Women
The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
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God Life Spirit
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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Experience Goodness Reach
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
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
Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.
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Act Love Need Prayer Word
How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!
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Poor Prediction Wisdom
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
Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
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Comfortable Life Night
Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
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Body Care Desire Need Ourselves
People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
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Interest Pay People Reason World
The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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Feeling God Journey
What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.
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Hope Ourselves Peace Philosophy
Truth suffers, but never dies.
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Death One Liner Suffering Truth
But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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Fact Slow Yourself

All things pass; Patience attains all it strives for.

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