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Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.

Teresa of Avila

Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.
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Afraid Death Live Way
Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
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Conversation Friendship Love Oneself Prayer
The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.
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God Oneself Simplicity
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
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
If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
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Greatness Love Perfection Practice
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
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
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Answer Prayer Tears
The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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Feeling God Journey
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
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
The saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions, because in forgiving them they had something to present to God when they prayed to Him.
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Forgiveness Himself Injury Present
To want to become angels while we are still on earth is ridiculous.
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Angel Earth Weird
Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
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Faith God Inspirational Place Trust Yourself
From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
TERESA OF AVILA

Deliever Devotion Face God Goodness
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

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