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Pain is never permanent.

Teresa of Avila

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Keep this in mind, for it is very important advice, so do not neglect it until you find you have such a fixed determination not to offend the Lord that you would rather lose a thousand lives and be persecuted by the whole world, than commit one mortal sin, and until you are most careful not to commit venial sins.
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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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Untilled soil, however fertile it may be, will bear thistles and thorns so it is with man's mind.
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Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
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[On her father:] ... in losing him I lost my greatest blessing and comfort, for he was always that to me.
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To argue over who is the more noble is nothing more than to dispute whether dirt is better for making bricks or for making mortar.
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Out of suffering comes the serious mind out of salvation, the grateful heart out of endurance, fortitude out of deliverance faith. Patient endurance attends to all things.
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God aids the valiant...both to you and to me He will give the help needed.
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The true penance comes when God takes away the soul's health and strength for doing penance. Even though I have mentioned elsewhere the great pain this lack causes, the pain is much more intense here. All these things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.
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From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
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Never compare one person with another: comparisons are odious.
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Patient endurance attends to all things.
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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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Be kind to all and severe to thyself.
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What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!
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There was the torture of sermons, and that not a slight one, for I was very fond of them.
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How is it that we do not die of love in seeing that God Himself could do no more than shed His divine blood for us drop by drop? When as man He was preparing for death, He made Himself our food in order to give us life. God becomes food, bread for his creatures. Is this not enough to make us die of love?
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To wish to act like angels while we are still in this world is nothing but folly.
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Untilled ground, however rich, will bring forth thistles and thorns so also the mind of man.
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Oh, how everything that is suffered with love is healed again!
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