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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.

Teresa of Avila

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
About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don’t go by one text only.
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Church Silence Women
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
Do you know when people really become spiritual? It is when they become the slaves of God and are branded with His sign, which is the sign of the Cross, in token that they have given Him their freedom.
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Brand Freedom God Himself People Slave Spiritual
What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.
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Hope Ourselves Peace Philosophy
All the troubles of the Church, all the evils in the world, flow from this source: that men do not by clear and sound knowledge and serious consideration penetrate into the truths of Sacred Scripture.
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Evil Flow Knowledge Man Serious Trouble Truth World
He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
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God Himself Satisfaction
Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
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Body Care Desire Need Ourselves
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
It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.
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Beginning Fear Greatness Important Ourselves Thinking
Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
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Comfortable Life Night
The saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions, because in forgiving them they had something to present to God when they prayed to Him.
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Forgiveness Himself Injury Present
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
Pain is never permanent.
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One Liner Pain
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
From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.
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Bad Heaven Hotel Life Misery Night

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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