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It constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler.

Teresa of Avila

The saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions, because in forgiving them they had something to present to God when they prayed to Him.
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Forgiveness Himself Injury Present
When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God.
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Acceptance Best God Praise
How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!
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Poor Prediction Wisdom
Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.
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Castle Remember Value Worth
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
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
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
Happy the heart where love has come to birth.
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Born Happiness Love
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
The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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Fruit Run Tree Water
Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
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Conversation Friendship Love Oneself Prayer
Those who in fact risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all.
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Fact God Lost Risk
Let nothing disturb you, / Nothing dismay you; / All things are passing: / God never changes.
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Change Disturb God
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
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Answer Prayer Tears
True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.
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Growth Love Rejection Soul Tenderness True
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

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