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May God protect me from gloomy saints.

Teresa of Avila

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
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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Experience Goodness Reach
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
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
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
Suffering is a great favor. Remember that everything soon comes to an end . . . and take courage. Think of how our gain is eternal.
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Favor Forever Greatness Ourselves Remember Suffering Thinking
Never affirm anything unless you are sure it is true.
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Affirmation True
However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.
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Enough God Religious Soft Speak
It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.
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Dangerous Ourselves Satisfaction
Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
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God Security Travel 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
Don’t imagine that, if you had a great deal of time, you would spend more of it in prayer. Get rid of that idea; it is no hindrance to prayer to spend your time well.
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Deal Greatness Imagination Prayer Time Yourself
The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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Fruit Run Tree Water
Every part of the journey is of importance to the whole.
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Importance Journey Spiritual
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
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

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