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If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.

Teresa of Avila

There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
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Answer Prayer Tears
From moment to moment one can bear much.
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Moments Oneself
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
Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true.
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Affirmation True
Happy the heart where love has come to birth.
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Born Happiness Love
We need no wings to go in search of Him, but have only to look upon Him present within us.
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Himself Need Search Wings
Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer.
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Blessing Purpose Suffering World
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
Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people’s, if we are always criticizing trivial actions – which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
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Action Disturb Ignorance Lose Motivational Ourselves Peace Soul Wrong
Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.
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Body Hands Lame Prayer Soul
Don’t be curious of matters that don’t concern you; never speak of them, and don’t ask about them.
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Curiosity Talk 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
Love turns work into rest.
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Love One Liner Work
What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.
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Hope Ourselves Peace Philosophy
People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
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Interest Pay People Reason World
We may speak of love and humility as the true flowers of spiritual growth; and they give off a wonderful scent, which benefits all those who come near.
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Flower Growth Humility Love Spiritual Talk True

If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.

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