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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.

Teresa of Avila

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
Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.
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Afraid Death Live Way
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
The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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Fruit Run Tree Water
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
Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
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Comfortable Life Night
What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!
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Company God Goodness Greatness People Place
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
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Answer Prayer Tears
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
Each of us has a soul, but we forget to value it. We don’t remember that we are creatures made in the image of God. We don’t understand the great secrets hidden inside of us.
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Forget Greatness Hide Image Remember Secret Soul Understand Value
Let nothing disturb you, / Nothing dismay you; / All things are passing: / God never changes.
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Change Disturb God
Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life. . . . If you do this, there will be many things about which you care nothing.
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Care Death Remember Soul Yourself
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
From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.
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Bad Heaven Hotel Life Misery Night
Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.
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Castle Remember Value Worth

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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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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