God deliver me from people who are so spiritual that they want to turn everything into perfect contemplation, come what may.
TERESA OF AVILA
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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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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Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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Christ moves along the pots and pans.
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Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.
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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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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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Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
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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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God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.
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We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.
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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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If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.
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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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There is no affliction, trial, or labor difficult to endure, when we consider the torments and sufferings which Our Lord Jesus Christ endured for us.
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There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
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