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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

Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
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God Himself Satisfaction
Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
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Paralyze People Practice Prayer Soul
The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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Fruit Run Tree Water
Christ has no body now but mine. He prays in me, works in me, looks through my eyes, speaks through my words, works through my hands, walks with my feet and loves with my heart.
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Body God Hands Heart Love Myself Prayer Walk Work
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
But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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Fact Slow Yourself
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
Happy the heart where love has come to birth.
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Born Happiness Love
How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.
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Friendship Interest Oneself Respect
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
Every part of the journey is of importance to the whole.
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Importance Journey Spiritual
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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Experience Goodness Reach
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
It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
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Different Love Nature Way Work
One always goes on as one begins.
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Beginning Oneself
Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith. Patient endurance attends to all things.
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Endurance Gratitude Mindset Patience Serious Suffering
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
We need no wings to go in search of Him, but have only to look upon Him present within us.
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Himself Need Search Wings
The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him.
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Custom God Himself Life Love Prayer
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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Difficult Endurance God Ourselves Suffering
Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
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Faith God Inspirational Place Trust Yourself
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
What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us.
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Hope Ourselves Peace Philosophy
True perfection consists in the love of God and our neighbour, and the better we keep both these commandments, the more perfect we shall be.
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Better Command Existence God Ourselves Perfection True
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
May I not come before You with empty hands, since we are rewarded according to our deeds.
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Empty Hands Ourselves Reward
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

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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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