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It constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler.

Teresa of Avila

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
However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.
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Enough God Religious Soft Speak
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
Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.
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Castle Remember Value Worth
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
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
Let nothing disturb thee, let nothing affright thee. All things are passing. Patience obtains all things. He who has God has everything – God alone suffices.
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Disturb Enough God Himself Patience
Truth suffers, but never dies.
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Death One Liner Suffering Truth
All times are dangerous times.
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Dangerous One Liner Time
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
We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.
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God Greatness Hard Time Struggle Walk
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
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
The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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Feeling God Journey
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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Act Kindness Soul
The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.
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God Oneself Simplicity

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