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Let there be no disappointment when obedience keeps you busy in outward tasks. If it sends you to the kitchen, remember that the Lord walks among the pots and pans.

Teresa of Avila

The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
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God Life Spirit
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
If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!
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Friendship Way Wonderful Yourself
From moment to moment one can bear much.
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Moments Oneself
However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.
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Enough God Religious Soft Speak
If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.
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Carry Perfection Reason Seek Understand Yourself
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
Any real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction.
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Direction Happiness Move Reality Right
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
After you die, you wear what you are.
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Character Clothes Death Deep Yourself
Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.
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Act Love Need Prayer Word
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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Brand Freedom God Himself People Slave Spiritual
He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
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God Himself Satisfaction
We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness we realize our own littleness; His purity shows us our foulness; and by meditating upon His humility we find how very far we are from being humble.
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Far Greatness Humble Learning Ourselves Purity
How often I failed in my duty to God, because I was not leaning on the strong pillar of prayer.
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Failure God Myself Prayer Responsibility
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 there be no disappointment when obedience keeps you busy in outward tasks. If it sends you to the kitchen, remember that the Lord walks among the pots and pans.

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