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There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them.

Teresa of Avila

In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.
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Earth Heaven Hotel Light Night Serious Suffering Worst
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
Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
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Faith God Inspirational Place Trust Yourself
After you die, you wear what you are.
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Character Clothes Death Deep Yourself
The important thing is not to think much but to love much; do, then, whatever most arouses you to love.
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Important Love Yourself
The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
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God Life Spirit
All blessings come to us through our Lord. He will teach us, for in beholding His life we find that He is the best example.
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Best Blessing God Himself Life Teaching
The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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Feeling God Journey
Always think of yourself as everyone’s servant; look for Christ Our Lord in everyone and you will then have respect and reverence for them all.
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God Respect Servant Thinking Yourself
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
If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps and strengthens us and never abandons us. He is a true friend.
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Abandonment Friendship God Leadership True
Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.
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Friendship God Himself Mental Prayer Secret
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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Experience Goodness Reach
I am afraid that if we begin to put our trust in human help, some of our Divine help will fail us.
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Afraid Beginning Failure Human Myself Trust
It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
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Alone Love Worth
The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.
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God Oneself Simplicity

There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them.

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