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God is even kinder than you think.

Teresa of Avila

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
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
Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
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Alone Light Love Value Wisdom
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
The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.
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God Oneself Simplicity
To have courage for whatever comes in life – everything lies in that.
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Courage Life Lying
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
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
People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
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Interest Pay People Reason World
Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
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God Security Travel 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
If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.
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Carry Perfection Reason Seek Understand Yourself
Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.
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Afraid Death Live Way
Each of us has a soul, but we forget to value it. We don’t remember that we are creatures made in the image of God. We don’t understand the great secrets hidden inside of us.
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Forget Greatness Hide Image Remember Secret Soul Understand Value
If you fall sometimes, you must not be discouraged.
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Encouragement Fall Hope Yourself
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

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