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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

The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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Fruit Run Tree Water
It is impossible for human tongue to exaggerate the riches which a vision from God brings to the soul: it even bestows health and refreshment on the body.
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Body Human Impossible Refresh Rich Vision
God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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God Health Obedience Yourself
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
But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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Fact Slow Yourself
Let there be no disappointment when obedience keeps you busy in outward tasks. If it sends you to the kitchen, remember that the Lord walks among the pots and pans.
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Disappoint Obedience Remember Yourself
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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Act Kindness Soul
All things pass; Patience attains all it strives for.
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Patience Strive
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
God is even kinder than you think.
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God Kindness Thinking Yourself
Union is as if in a room there were two large windows through which the light streamed in; it enters in different places but it all becomes one.
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Different Oneself Place Unity Window
To have courage for whatever comes in life – everything lies in that.
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Courage Life Lying
Christ moves along the pots and pans.
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God Move
Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.
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Thinking Virtue Yourself
No one should think or say anything of another which he would not wish thought or said of himself.
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Himself Talk Thinking Voice
However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.
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Enough God Religious Soft Speak

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

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