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Never compare one person with another: comparisons are odious.

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May I not come before You with empty hands, since we are rewarded according to our deeds.
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Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
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Do you know when people really become spiritual? It is when they become the slaves of God and are branded with His sign, which is the sign of the Cross, in token that they have given Him their freedom.
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The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
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We are always in the presence of God, yet it seems to me that those who pray are in His presence in a very different sense.
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From moment to moment one can bear much.
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There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
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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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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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Patience obtains everything.
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From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.
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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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Strive to close the eyes of the body and open those of the soul and look into your own heart.
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O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.
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His Majesty [the Lord] . . . rewards great services with trials, and there can be no better reward, for out of trials springs love for God.
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Our soul can find in the Blessed Sacrament all the joys and consolations it desires.
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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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Holy church-that mother who is also a queen because she is a king's bride.
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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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