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We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.

Teresa of Avila

The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.
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God Oneself Simplicity
Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.
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Afraid Death Live Way
From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.
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Bad Heaven Hotel Life Misery Night
Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost.
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Humility Lost Work
Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.
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God Settle Solitude Yourself
Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.
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Thinking Virtue Yourself
Those who in fact risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all.
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Fact God Lost Risk
Strive to close the eyes of the body and open those of the soul and look into your own heart.
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Body Eyes Heart Open Soul
Do you know when people really become spiritual? It is when they become the slaves of God and are branded with His sign, which is the sign of the Cross, in token that they have given Him their freedom.
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Brand Freedom God Himself People Slave Spiritual
After you die, you wear what you are.
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Character Clothes Death Deep Yourself
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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Experience Goodness Reach
It constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler.
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Constant Fall God Growth Humble Soul
Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All things pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for.
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Change God Patience Strive
We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness we realize our own littleness; His purity shows us our foulness; and by meditating upon His humility we find how very far we are from being humble.
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Far Greatness Humble Learning Ourselves Purity
The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
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God Life Spirit
Don’t imagine that, if you had a great deal of time, you would spend more of it in prayer. Get rid of that idea; it is no hindrance to prayer to spend your time well.
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Deal Greatness Imagination Prayer Time Yourself

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