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The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.

Teresa of Avila

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Patient endurance attends to all things.
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Union is as if in a room there were two large windows through which the light streamed in it enters in different places but it all becomes one.
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Praised be the Lord, who has redeemed me from myself.
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Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.
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Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true.
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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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What friends or kindred can be so close and intimate as the powers of our soul, which, whether we will or no, must ever bear us company?
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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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You ought to make every effort to free yourselves even from venial sin, and to do what is most perfect.
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What value is there in faith without works? And what are they worth if they are not united to the merits of Jesus Christ, our only good?
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Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
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All times are dangerous times.
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God aids the valiant...both to you and to me He will give the help needed.
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From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
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For pity's sake, don't start meeting troubles halfway.
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Ah, how true it is that we love ourselves too much and proceed with too much human prudence, that we may not lose an atom of our consideration! Oh, what a great mistake that is! The Saints did not act thus.
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Untilled ground, however rich, will bring forth thistles and thorns so also the mind of man.
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Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul however keen our intellects may be, they are as unable to comprehend them as to comprehend God, for, as He has told us, He created us in His own image and likeness.
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How often I failed in my duty to God, because I was not leaning on the strong pillar of prayer.
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