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What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!

Teresa of Avila

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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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True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.
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In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.
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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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From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
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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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Let nothing disturb you, / Nothing dismay you / All things are passing: / God never changes.
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How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!
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Pain is never permanent.
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No one should think or say anything of another which he would not wish thought or said of himself.
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