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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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The most potent and acceptable prayer is the prayer that leaves the best effects. I don't mean it must immediately fill the soul with desire . . . The best effects are those that are followed up by actions-when the soul not only desires the honor of God, but really strives for it.
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Patient endurance attends to all things.
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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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Holy church-that mother who is also a queen because she is a king's bride.
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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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Anyone who has the habit of speaking before God's majesty as if he were speaking to a slave, careless about how he is speaking, and saying whatever comes into his head and whatever he's learned from saying prayers at other times, in my opinion is not praying. Please, God, may no Christian pray in this way.
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About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don't go by one text only.
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May God protect me from gloomy saints.
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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Don't imagine that, if you had a great deal of time, you would spend more of it in prayer. Get rid of that idea it is no hindrance to prayer to spend your time well.
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It is only mercenaries who expect to be paid by the day.
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Her heart is full of joy with love, for in the Lord her mind is stilled. She has renounced every selfish attachment and draws abiding joy and strength from the One within. She lives not for herself, but lives to serve the Lord of Love in all, and swims across the sea of life breasting its rough waves joyfully.
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Teach by works more than words.
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If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.
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Do you think it is only a little thing to possess a house from which lovely things can be seen?
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I had a father and mother, who were devout and feared God. Our Lord also helped me with His grace. All this would have been enough to make me good, if I had not been so wicked.
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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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What misery to live in this world! We are like men whose enemies are at the door, who must not lay aside their arms, even while sleeping or eating, and are always in dread lest the foe should enter the fortress by some breach in the walls. O my Lord and my all! How canst thou wish us to prize such a wretched existence?
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It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.
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