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We need no wings to go in search of Him, but have only to look upon Him present within us.

Teresa of Avila

People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
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Interest Pay People Reason World
Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.
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Castle Remember Value Worth
If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps and strengthens us and never abandons us. He is a true friend.
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Abandonment Friendship God Leadership True
Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
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God Himself Satisfaction
Consider seriously how quickly people change, and how little trust is to be had in them; and hold fast to God, Who does not change.
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Change Hold People Quick Serious
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
Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer.
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Blessing Purpose Suffering World
Teach by works more than words.
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Teaching Word Work
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
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
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 saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions, because in forgiving them they had something to present to God when they prayed to Him.
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Forgiveness Himself Injury Present
Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.
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Thinking Virtue Yourself
Strive to close the eyes of the body and open those of the soul and look into your own heart.
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Body Eyes Heart Open Soul
The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
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God Life Spirit
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

We need no wings to go in search of Him, but have only to look upon Him present within us.

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