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Never compare one person with another: comparisons are odious.

Teresa of Avila

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Consider seriously how quickly people change, and how little trust is to be had in them and hold fast to God, Who does not change.
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Hope, O my soul, hope. You know neither the day nor the hour.
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I would never want any prayer that would not make the virtues grow within me.
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I often thought my constitution would never endure the work I had to do, (but) the Lord said to me: 'Daughter, obedience gives strength.'
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Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
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Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
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Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
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It constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler.
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All times are dangerous times.
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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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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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The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
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To want to become angels while we are still on earth ... is ridiculous.
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Any real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction.
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We bloomed in Spring. Our bodies are the leaves of God. The apparent seasons of life and death our eyes can suffer but our souls, dear, I will just say this forthright: they are God Himself, we will never perish until He does.
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Let us consider the glorious Saint Paul: it seems that no other name fell from his lips than that of Jesus, because the name of Jesus was fixed and embedded in his heart.
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God aids the valiant...both to you and to me He will give the help needed.
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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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God, deliver me from sullen saints.
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God never changes Patient endurance Attains to all things Who God possesses In nothing is wanting Alone God suffices.
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