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Don’t let your sins turn into bad habits.

Teresa of Avila

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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Different Oneself Place Unity Window
Truth suffers, but never dies.
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Death One Liner Suffering Truth
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
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
How often I failed in my duty to God, because I was not leaning on the strong pillar of prayer.
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Failure God Myself Prayer Responsibility
From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
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Deliever Devotion Face God Goodness
Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
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God Himself Satisfaction
There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them.
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Greatness Myself Poverty Sorry True
To want to become angels while we are still on earth is ridiculous.
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Angel Earth Weird
God deliver me from people who are so spiritual that they want to turn everything into perfect contemplation, come what may.
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God Myself People Perfection Spiritual
God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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God Health Obedience Yourself
Let nothing disturb you, / Nothing dismay you; / All things are passing: / God never changes.
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Change Disturb God
Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life. . . . If you do this, there will be many things about which you care nothing.
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Care Death Remember Soul Yourself
If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
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Greatness Love Perfection Practice
Love draws forth love.
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Love One Liner
It constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler.
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Constant Fall God Growth Humble Soul

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