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True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Teresa of Avila

Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.
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Castle Remember Value Worth
Don’t let your sins turn into bad habits.
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Bad Habit Sin Yourself
The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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Fruit Run Tree Water
It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not always be the same.
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Freedom Ourselves Sin True
May God protect me from gloomy saints.
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God Protection Sadness
Happy the heart where love has come to birth.
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Born Happiness Love
The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
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God Life Spirit
For pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.
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Pity Start Trouble Way
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
He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
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God Himself Satisfaction
Christ moves along the pots and pans.
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God Move
In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.
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Earth Heaven Hotel Light Night Serious Suffering Worst
If we learn to love the earth, we will find labyrinths, gardens, fountains and precious jewels! A whole new world will open itself to us. We will discover what it means to be truly alive.
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Alive Discover Earth Learning Love Open Search True
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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Body Discover Material Mistake Yourself
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
How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!
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Poor Prediction Wisdom

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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