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From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.

Teresa of Avila

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.
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Growth Love Rejection Soul Tenderness True
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
After you die, you wear what you are.
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Character Clothes Death Deep Yourself
When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God.
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Acceptance Best God Praise
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
Teach by works more than words.
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Teaching Word Work
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
For pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.
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Pity Start Trouble Way
Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
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Alone Light Love Value Wisdom
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
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
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
The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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Feeling God Journey
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
From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.
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Bad Heaven Hotel Life Misery Night
Don’t be curious of matters that don’t concern you; never speak of them, and don’t ask about them.
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Curiosity Talk Yourself
Christ does not force our will, He only takes what we give Him. But He does not give Himself entirely until He sees that we yield ourselves entirely to Him.
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Force God Himself Ourselves Willing
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
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
God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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God Health Obedience Yourself
Every part of the journey is of importance to the whole.
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Importance Journey Spiritual
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 us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.
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Castle Remember Value Worth
Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.
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Friendship God Himself Mental Prayer Secret
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
He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
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God Himself Satisfaction

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