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Strive to close the eyes of the body and open those of the soul and look into your own heart.

Teresa of Avila

Oh, my Lord! How true it is that whoever works for you is paid in troubles! And what a precious price to those who love you if we understand its value.
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Pay Precious Price Trouble True Understand Value Work
Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.
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Castle Remember Value Worth
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
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
If you fall sometimes, you must not be discouraged.
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Encouragement Fall Hope Yourself
Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.
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See Sight Yourself
When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God.
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Acceptance Best God Praise
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
The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
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God Life Spirit
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
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
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
Christ moves along the pots and pans.
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God Move
There is no affliction, trial, or labor difficult to endure, when we consider the torments and sufferings which Our Lord Jesus Christ endured for us.
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Difficult Endurance God Ourselves Suffering
May God protect me from gloomy saints.
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God Protection Sadness
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

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