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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

What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!
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Company God Goodness Greatness People Place
The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
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God Life Spirit
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
God is even kinder than you think.
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God Kindness Thinking Yourself
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
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
The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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Feeling God Journey
One always goes on as one begins.
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Beginning Oneself
Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
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Comfortable Life Night
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
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
It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.
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Dangerous Ourselves Satisfaction
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
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
Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.
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God Settle Solitude Yourself
About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don’t go by one text only.
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Church Silence Women

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

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