May God protect me from gloomy saints.... -Saint Teresa of Avila

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May God protect me from gloomy saints.

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Be gentle to all and stern with yourself....
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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience....
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May God protect me from gloomy saints....
I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to myself, that I wonder now I was not always on the ground. I prais...
We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us....
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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too....
For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God....

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God's people are peculiar. Their spirit cannot mingle with the spirit and influence of the world. You do not wish to bear the Christian name and yet b...
The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride....
Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God....
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I believe that the greatest form of prayer is praise to God....
God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, ...
Faith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy....
You will never exaggerate when you speak good things of God. It is not possible to do so. Try, dear brethren, and boast in the Lord....