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Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.

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
Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
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Alone Light Love Value Wisdom
Everything seems to me to pass so quickly that we must concentrate on how to die rather than on how to live. How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross with Christ.
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Death Live Oneself Quick
How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!
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Poor Prediction Wisdom
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
Happy the heart where love has come to birth.
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Born Happiness Love
Desire to see God, be fearful of losing Him, and find joy in everything that can lead to Him. If you act in this way, you will always live in great peace.
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Act Desire Fear God Greatness Leadership Live Lose See Yourself
God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.
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God Health Obedience Yourself
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
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
Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
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God Himself Satisfaction
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
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
Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.
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Thinking Virtue Yourself
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
Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
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Body Care Desire Need Ourselves

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