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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.

Teresa of Avila

The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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Feeling God Journey
It constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler.
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Constant Fall God Growth Humble Soul
Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
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Body Care Desire Need Ourselves
The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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Fruit Run Tree Water
Those who in fact risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all.
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Fact God Lost Risk
Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
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God Security Travel True
God is even kinder than you think.
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God Kindness Thinking Yourself
Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
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Faith God Inspirational Place Trust Yourself
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
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
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
This body of ours has one fault: the more you indulge it, the more things it discovers to be essential to it. It is extraordinary how it likes being indulged.
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Body Discover Material Mistake Yourself
Do you know when people really become spiritual? It is when they become the slaves of God and are branded with His sign, which is the sign of the Cross, in token that they have given Him their freedom.
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Brand Freedom God Himself People Slave Spiritual
Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true.
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Affirmation True
All things pass; Patience attains all it strives for.
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Patience Strive
How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.
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Friendship Interest Oneself Respect

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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