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Every part of the journey is of importance to the whole.

Teresa of Avila

True perfection consists in the love of God and our neighbour, and the better we keep both these commandments, the more perfect we shall be.
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Better Command Existence God Ourselves Perfection True
Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost.
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Humility Lost Work
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
Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
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Comfortable Life Night
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
People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
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Interest Pay People Reason World
Oh, my Lord! How true it is that whoever works for you is paid in troubles! And what a precious price to those who love you if we understand its value.
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Pay Precious Price Trouble True Understand Value Work
Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
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Alone Light Love Value Wisdom
To have courage for whatever comes in life – everything lies in that.
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Courage Life Lying
Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.
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Thinking Virtue Yourself
However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.
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Enough God Religious Soft Speak
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
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
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Answer Prayer Tears
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
What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!
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Company God Goodness Greatness People Place
If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!
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Friendship Way Wonderful Yourself

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