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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.

Teresa of Avila

It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.
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Friendship God Greatness Human Law Willing
Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.
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Castle Remember Value Worth
People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
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Interest Pay People Reason World
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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Experience Goodness Reach
Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All things pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for.
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Change God Patience Strive
The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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Fruit Run Tree Water
We may speak of love and humility as the true flowers of spiritual growth; and they give off a wonderful scent, which benefits all those who come near.
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Flower Growth Humility Love Spiritual Talk True
It is not a matter of thinking a great deal but of loving a great deal, so do whatever arouses you most to love.
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Deal Greatness Love Thinking Yourself
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
The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.
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God Oneself Simplicity
Teach by works more than words.
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Teaching Word Work
However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.
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Enough God Religious Soft Speak
How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!
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Poor Prediction Wisdom
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
If you fall sometimes, you must not be discouraged.
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Encouragement Fall Hope Yourself
No one should think or say anything of another which he would not wish thought or said of himself.
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Himself Talk Thinking Voice

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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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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