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What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.

Teresa of Avila

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

God Greatness Hard Time Struggle Walk
Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.
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Thinking Virtue Yourself
It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
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Different Love Nature Way Work
Be kind to all and severe to thyself.
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Hard Kind Yourself
The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him.
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Custom God Himself Life Love Prayer
Teach by works more than words.
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Teaching Word Work
Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
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Act Love Need Prayer Sick Willing
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
True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.
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Growth Love Rejection Soul Tenderness True
If you fall sometimes, you must not be discouraged.
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Encouragement Fall Hope Yourself
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
The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.
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God Oneself Simplicity
Truth suffers, but never dies.
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Death One Liner Suffering Truth
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
Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.
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Accomplishment Attention Father Heart Ourselves Repeat Time
Happy the heart where love has come to birth.
TERESA OF AVILA

Born Happiness Love

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