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All things pass; Patience attains all it strives for.

Teresa of Avila

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
What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!
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Company God Goodness Greatness People Place
The important thing is not to think much but to love much; do, then, whatever most arouses you to love.
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Important Love Yourself
People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
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Interest Pay People Reason World
It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
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Different Love Nature Way Work
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
After you die, you wear what you are.
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Character Clothes Death Deep Yourself
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
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Answer Prayer Tears
Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.
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Accomplishment Attention Father Heart Ourselves Repeat Time
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
From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.
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Bad Heaven Hotel Life Misery Night
All times are dangerous times.
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Dangerous One Liner Time
How often I failed in my duty to God, because I was not leaning on the strong pillar of prayer.
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Failure God Myself Prayer Responsibility
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
Everything seems to me to pass so quickly that we must concentrate on how to die rather than on how to live. How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross with Christ.
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Death Live Oneself Quick

All things pass; Patience attains all it strives for.

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