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.
Saint Teresa of Avila
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- To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
- I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.
- For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
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