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Patient endurance / Attaineth to all things.
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For pity's sake, don't start meeting troubles halfway.
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To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
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From moment to moment one can bear much.
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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 closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.
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I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults. On the one hand, God was calling me. On the other, I was following the way of the world. Doing what God wanted made me happy but I felt bound by the things of this world.
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Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
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What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!
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Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.
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Let us look at our own faults, and not other people's. We ought not to insist on everyone following in our footsteps, nor to take upon ourselves to give instructions in spirituality when, perhaps, we do not even know what it is.
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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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Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends it means taking time frequently to be alone with Him who we know loves us. The important thing is not to think much but to love much and so do that which best stirs you to love. Love is not great delight but desire to please God in everything.
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I would never want any prayer that would not make the virtues grow within me.
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Be kind to all and severe to thyself.
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Praised be the Lord, who has redeemed me from myself.
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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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[On her father:] ... in losing him I lost my greatest blessing and comfort, for he was always that to me.
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Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
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How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!
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