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Happy the heart where love has come to birth.

Teresa of Avila

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
Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer.
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Blessing Purpose Suffering World
Pain is never permanent.
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One Liner Pain
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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Act Kindness Soul
But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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Fact Slow Yourself
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
Don’t let your sins turn into bad habits.
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Bad Habit Sin Yourself
Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.
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See Sight Yourself
Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
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Comfortable Life Night
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 tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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Fruit Run Tree Water
Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.
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God Settle Solitude Yourself
Let nothing disturb thee, let nothing affright thee. All things are passing. Patience obtains all things. He who has God has everything – God alone suffices.
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Disturb Enough God Himself Patience
Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.
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Accomplishment Attention Father Heart Ourselves Repeat Time
In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.
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Earth Heaven Hotel Light Night Serious Suffering Worst
I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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Castle Diamond Heaven Home Myself Soul Thinking

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