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

Teresa of Avila

May I not come before You with empty hands, since we are rewarded according to our deeds.
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Empty Hands Ourselves Reward
Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
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God Himself Satisfaction
The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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Fruit Run Tree Water
You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
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Compliment God Greatness Himself Pau
If we learn to love the earth, we will find labyrinths, gardens, fountains and precious jewels! A whole new world will open itself to us. We will discover what it means to be truly alive.
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Alive Discover Earth Learning Love Open Search 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
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
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
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Answer Prayer Tears
God is even kinder than you think.
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God Kindness Thinking Yourself
This body of ours has one fault: the more you indulge it, the more things it discovers to be essential to it. It is extraordinary how it likes being indulged.
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Body Discover Material Mistake Yourself
The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.
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God Oneself Simplicity
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
After you die, you wear what you are.
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Character Clothes Death Deep Yourself
Truth suffers, but never dies.
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Death One Liner Suffering Truth
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
How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!
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Poor Prediction Wisdom

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