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Never compare one person with another: comparisons are odious.

Teresa of Avila

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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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Alas, O Lord, to what a state dost Thou bring those who love Thee!
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Untilled ground, however rich, will bring forth thistles and thorns so also the mind of man.
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What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!
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How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!
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I only wish I could write with both hands, so as not to forget one thing while I am saying another.
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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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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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How friendly all men would be one with another, if no regard were paid to honour and money! I believe it would be a remedy for everything.
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How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.
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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 moment to moment one can bear much.
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We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God for, beholding His greatness we realize our own littleness His purity shows us our foulness and by meditating upon His humility we find how very far we are from being humble.
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Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from the thought that God wishes it to remain here in banishment.
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As to the aridity you are suffering from, it seems to me our Lord is treating you like someone He considers strong: He wants to test you and see if you love Him as much at times of aridity as when He sends you consolations. I think this is a very great favor for God to show you.
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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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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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Patient endurance / Attaineth to all things.
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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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The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
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