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What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!

Teresa of Avila

Union is as if in a room there were two large windows through which the light streamed in; it enters in different places but it all becomes one.
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Different Oneself Place Unity Window
It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
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Alone Love Worth
Let there be no disappointment when obedience keeps you busy in outward tasks. If it sends you to the kitchen, remember that the Lord walks among the pots and pans.
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Disappoint Obedience Remember Yourself
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
It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not always be the same.
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Freedom Ourselves Sin True
God is even kinder than you think.
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God Kindness Thinking Yourself
God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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God Health Obedience Yourself
Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.
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Body Hands Lame Prayer Soul
Every part of the journey is of importance to the whole.
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Importance Journey Spiritual
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
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 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
All times are dangerous times.
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Dangerous One Liner Time
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
The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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Feeling God Journey
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

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