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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

Happy the heart where love has come to birth.
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Born Happiness Love
How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!
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Poor Prediction Wisdom
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 always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.
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God Greatness Hard Time Struggle Walk
Truth suffers, but never dies.
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Death One Liner Suffering Truth
Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
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Conversation Friendship Love Oneself Prayer
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
Don’t be curious of matters that don’t concern you; never speak of them, and don’t ask about them.
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Curiosity Talk Yourself
We may speak of love and humility as the true flowers of spiritual growth; and they give off a wonderful scent, which benefits all those who come near.
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Flower Growth Humility Love Spiritual Talk True
The saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions, because in forgiving them they had something to present to God when they prayed to Him.
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Forgiveness Himself Injury Present
Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.
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God Settle Solitude Yourself
I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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Castle Diamond Heaven Home Myself Soul Thinking
No one should think or say anything of another which he would not wish thought or said of himself.
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Himself Talk Thinking Voice
It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
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Alone Love Worth
If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.
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Carry Perfection Reason Seek Understand Yourself
There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.
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Act Humility Knowledge Study Value World

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

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