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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.

Teresa of Avila

To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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Experience Goodness Reach
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
Everything seems to me to pass so quickly that we must concentrate on how to die rather than on how to live. How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross with Christ.
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Death Live Oneself Quick
Christ moves along the pots and pans.
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God Move
It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.
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Friendship God Greatness Human Law Willing
What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.
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Hope Ourselves Peace Philosophy
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
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
Don’t let your sins turn into bad habits.
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Bad Habit Sin Yourself
Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.
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Act Love Need Prayer Word
May God protect me from gloomy saints.
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God Protection Sadness
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
Be kind to all and severe to thyself.
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Hard Kind 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
Christ does not force our will, He only takes what we give Him. But He does not give Himself entirely until He sees that we yield ourselves entirely to Him.
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Force God Himself Ourselves Willing
People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
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Interest Pay People Reason World

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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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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