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We need no wings to go in search of Him, but have only to look upon Him present within us.

Teresa of Avila

In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.
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Crystal God Grace Life Man Rise River State Tree Water
From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
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Deliever Devotion Face God Goodness
Each of us has a soul, but we forget to value it. We don’t remember that we are creatures made in the image of God. We don’t understand the great secrets hidden inside of us.
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Forget Greatness Hide Image Remember Secret Soul Understand Value
It is not a matter of thinking a great deal but of loving a great deal, so do whatever arouses you most to love.
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Deal Greatness Love Thinking Yourself
One always goes on as one begins.
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Beginning Oneself
Let nothing disturb you, / Nothing dismay you; / All things are passing: / God never changes.
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Change Disturb God
But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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Fact Slow Yourself
This body of ours has one fault: the more you indulge it, the more things it discovers to be essential to it. It is extraordinary how it likes being indulged.
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Body Discover Material Mistake Yourself
To have courage for whatever comes in life – everything lies in that.
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Courage Life Lying
Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
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Alone Light Love Value Wisdom
The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
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God Life Spirit
God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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God Health Obedience Yourself
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
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Answer Prayer Tears
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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Action Disturb Ignorance Lose Motivational Ourselves Peace Soul Wrong
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
It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.
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Beginning Fear Greatness Important Ourselves Thinking

We need no wings to go in search of Him, but have only to look upon Him present within us.

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